Death Penalty
Identity Theft
Domestic Violence
Child Abuse
Sex Offenders
Controlled Substances
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
Other Crimes and Sentencing
Procedural
Juries
Juvenile Justice
Corrections
Victims of Crime
Weapons
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
Law Enforcement
Family Law
Civil Law
Death Penalty
SB 294 (Morrow-R) Habeas corpus
Creates a new motion in the trial court to substitute for a habeas motion filed in the Supreme Court in death penalty cases.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 817 (Ashburn-R) Murder: special circumstances
Makes the intentional murder of a child under the age of 14 to adult, a death penalty offense.
(Died in the Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1558 (Morrow-R) Habeas corpus
Provides for a motion for habeas corpus, for prisoners sentenced to death, in order to collaterally attack a judgment. Requires the Supreme Court and the Judicial Council to adopt rules in this regard in connection with conforming to specified federal provisions relating to habeas corpus procedures in capital cases.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1808 (Aanestad-R) Physicians and surgeons: executions
Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, participating in a death penalty execution, as described in Section 3604 of the Penal Code, does not constitute the practice of medicine and a physician and surgeon who carries out or participates in a death penalty execution does not violate any provision of this chapter and shall not be subject to any disciplinary action by the board.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1121 (Koretz-D) Sentencing
Places a moratorium on the imposition of the death penalty until the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice finds that the death penalty is applied fairly.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1672 (Nation-D) Prisons: death row expansion study
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to solicit bids and award a contract for an independent analysis of the cost to expand death row at San Quentin State Prison, as well as possible alternatives, such as a rural and urban facility for death row prisoners.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1762 (Nation-D) Death penalty prisoners
Provides that a condemned inmate shall be housed in any state prison that contains level 4 security or is a condemned facility subject to similar privileges and classifications as would be applied to him if he were housed at San Quentin State Prison.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Habeas Corpus Resource Center
Implements the general government budget trailer bill which, among other provisions, authorizes the Habeas Corpus Resource Center to increase the number of attorneys handling capital habeas corpus appointments from 30 to 34. The budget includes $1.2 million to establish 12 positions, including four attorney positions, in order to handle additional habeas cases.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1954 (Lieu-D) Physicians: participation in executions
Prohibits using physicians to participate in an execution.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2266 (Lieber-D) Death penalty: moratorium
Places, upon approval by the voters, a moratorium on imposition of the death penalty until the Legislature considers the recommendations of the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice (scheduled to be completed by December 31, 2007) and enacts legislation ending or extending the moratorium.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
Identity Theft
SB 346 (Battin-R) Child identity theft
Provides that a child whose parent or legal guardian has misused the personal identifying information of the child may be adjudged a dependent child of the juvenile court.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 768 (Simitian-D) Identity Information Protection Act of 2006
Enacts the Identity Information Act of 2006. Requires the implementation of interim privacy and security measures for government issued, remotely readable identification documents.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 839 (Poochigian-R) Identity theft: penalties
Increase penalties for persons who possess, use or traffic in the personal identifying information of others.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 852 (Bowen-D) Identity theft
Expands existing requirements regarding consumer notification of data security breaches to include data in a non-computerized form, such as paper or back-up tapes, so that any personal information acquired by an unauthorized person shall be covered.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
SB 1387 (Poochigian-R) Personal identifying information
Creates an alternate felony/misdemeanor, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in the state prison, or by up to one year in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, for any person, who acquires, transfers or retains possession of the personal identifying information of 10 or more persons with the intent to defraud.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1388 (Poochigian-R) Phishing
Changes the penalty for "phishing" (using fraudulent e-mails or web sites to trick consumers into providing personal information, such as bank account numbers and social security numbers, to what is believed to be a legitimate company) from a civil penalty to an alternate felony/misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in the county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, or by 16 months, two, or three years in state prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1389 (Poochigian-R) False personation
Extends the current alternate felony-misdemeanor ("wobbler") crime of false personation to include any act that might expose the victim to arrest.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1390 (Poochigian-R) Crime statistics
Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to include information regarding identity theft arrests in DOJ's annual crime report.
Chapter 160, Statutes of 2006
SB 1495 (Battin-R) Identity theft where the victim is a minor
Provides that where a defendant commits the alternate felony-misdemeanor of using another person's identity to obtain goods, services or medical information and the victim is a minor, the punishment for the felony shall be a prison term of two, three or four years.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1666 (Bowen-D) Personal information
Provides that no person shall obtain or attempt to obtain, or cause to be disclosed or attempt to cause to be disclosed personal information contained in records about a customer or employee of a business by making false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations to an officer, employee, agent, or customer of the business.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 421 (Spitzer-R) Distribution of personal information
Makes it a crime to distribute personal information through a web site or via e-mail, about a minor.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 424* (Calderon-D) Identity theft: definition
Provides that person, as use din the Penal Code identity theft provisions includes a natural person, firm, association, organization, partnership, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, or public entity. Expands the definition of "personal identifying information" under the Penal Code to include "an equivalent (to those already provided) form of identification."
Chapter 10, Statutes of 2006
AB 484 (Benoit-R) Elder and dependent adults: identity theft
Makes a second or subsequent violation of elder financial abuse, regardless of the amount of the crime, an alternate misdemeanor which is punishable by imprisonment, a fine, or both. Provides that the crimes to which this increase penalty applies include theft, identity theft, fraud, embezzlement, or forgery.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 786 (Ruskin-D) Identity theft: California State University employees
Requires that, upon request of a California State University (CSU) employee following disclosure by the CSU of a breach in security of data containing their personal information, the employee shall have four hours of paid leave to deal with any problems associated with the security breach.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 946 (Wyland-R) Identify theft
Increases the fines for identity theft from a maximum of $1,000 to $2,000 for a misdemeanor and from a maximum of $10,000 to $20,000 for a felony.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1581 (Garcia-R) Identity theft
Creates a new alternate felony/misdemeanor, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in state prison or up to one year in county jail, and/or a fine of up to $1,000, for any person who, with the intent to defraud, acquires, retains or transfers the personal identifying information of 100 or more persons.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2043 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Identify theft
Allows specified business entities that are the victims of identity theft to take advantage of the debt relief protection currently available only to natural persons who are victimized by identity theft.
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2006
AB 2333 (Parra-D) Identity theft
Provides that a person who has previously been convicted of specified identity theft and who subsequently acquires or retains the personal identity of 10 or more persons is guilty of a wobbler.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 2886 (Frommer-D) Identity theft
Creates several new identity theft alternate felony-misdemeanors (wobblers). Creates a misdemeanor crime for mail theft.
Chapter 522, Statutes of 2006
AB 2919 (Benoit-R) Identity theft
Changes the penalty for "phishing" (using fraudulent e-mails or web sites to trick consumers into providing personal information, such as bank account numbers and social security numbers, to what is believed to be a legitimate company) from a civil penalty to an alternate felony/misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in the county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000, or by 16 months, two, or three years in state prison and/or a fine of up to $10,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2956 (Lieu-D) Identity theft
Increases misdemeanor fines for possession or use of a scanning device and for using, acquiring or transferring the personal identifying information of another person.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2985 (Maze-R) Foster youth: identity theft
Requires county welfare departments to request a credit report (consumer disclosure) on behalf of each foster child turning 16 in order to ascertain whether identity theft has occurred.
Chapter 387, Statutes of 2006
Domestic Violence
SB 968 (Torlakson-D) Domestic violence: Contra Costa County
Deletes the January 1, 2007 sunset date dealing with fee increases on documents that funded domestic violence programs in Contra Costa County.
Chapter 635, Statutes of 2006
SB 1062 (Bowen-D) Victims of crime: domestic violence and sexual assault
Adds sexual assault to California's Confidential Address Program for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking and makes technical changes to the statute that governs the domestic violence programs within the Maternal Child Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and the Comprehensive Statewide Domestic Violence Program within the Office of Emergency Services.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 2006
SB 1491 (Kuehl-D) Domestic violence: personal information
Prohibits a victim service provider from being required to reveal the personally identifying information of its clients or potential clients as a part of applying for or receiving grants or financial assistance for its service.
Chapter 54, Statutes of 2006
SB 1599 (Ducheny-D) Domestic violence prevention: funding
Enacts the California Family Violence Prevention and Public Safety Act of 2006, which creates a comprehensive set of strategies that replicate or are based upon best practices, to reduce violent crime by reducing rates of domestic violence, child abuse, and sexual assault in California.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1745 (Kuehl-D) Employment discrimination: victims of violence
Provides that it is against the public policy of the state for any employer of one or more employees to harass any individual, or for any employer of five or more employees to harass, refuse to hire or employ, discharge, or otherwise discriminate against any individual in compensation, or in other terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because the individual is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 59 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence: presence of minors
Requires a one-year sentence enhancement for any person convicted of felony domestic violence, as defined, "in the presence of a child" under the age of 18. Requires a minimum of 90 days in county jail for any person convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence in the presence of a child under 18. Provides that if a mandatory jail term is already required for the underlying offense, that mandatory time shall be increased by 90 days.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 106 (Cohn-D) Spousal battery: fines: amnesty
Creates a one-time amnesty program for penalties and assessments imposed for spousal battery or domestic violence that have been delinquent for not less than six months as of January 1, 2006. Provides that persons eligible for the amnesty must pay 70 percent of the total penalty.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 506 (Montanez-D) Teen dating violence
Requires each school district to establish a policy and protocol, as specified, for dealing with incidents of teen dating violence involving middle school and high school students.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 789 (Lieber-D) Domestic violence
Increases the fine for those convicted of domestic violence in the amount of $150 and deposits that amount into the Domestic Violence Training and Education Fund. Provides that after a hearing, if the court determines that the defendant is unable to pay, the court may reduce or waive the fine.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1872 (Cohn-D) Sentence enhancements: pregnant women
Expands the existing five-year enhancement for inflicting injury on a pregnant woman that results in the termination of her pregnancy to include the infliction of great bodily injury on a pregnant woman, regardless of any medical impact related to the pregnancy.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1999* (Torrico-D) Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Fund
Imposes a tax on the sale of or the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property that is harmful matter, as defined, in this state at a rate of one percent. Creates the Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Fund and requires that all revenues, less refunds, derived from the tax be transferred to the fund. Continuously appropriates all of the money in the fund to the Department of Health Services for programs that support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2051 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence
Expands education and training requirements to include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender domestic violence issues.
Chapter 856, Statutes of 2006
AB 2075 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence and child abuse
Specifies that provisions proscribing child abuse and crimes of domestic violence may be charged in the same accusatory pleading under separate counts, subject to the discretion of the court to try the counts separately, as specified. Provides that if "two or more accusatory pleadings are file din the same court alleging any crime of domestic violence, as specified, the court may order them to be consolidated."
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2084 (Karnette-D) Domestic violence shelter-based programs
Repeals the Domestic Violence Centers Act, and, in its place, enacts the Domestic Violence Shelter-Based Programs Act, with much of the same provisions. Notable changes include requiring all funding to go to shelter whose primary function is to administer domestic violence programs, protecting a victim's confidential information, and allowing shelters to allocate funds to direct and indirect shelter services.
Chapter 857, Statutes of 2006
AB 2169 (Montanez-D) Domestic violence: victims
Extends the January 1, 2008 repeal date sunset provision for the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking Program which is administered by the Secretary of State until January 1, 2013. That program, part or the Safe at Home project, allows victims of domestic violence or stalking to use an alternative address on public records to retain their anonymity.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2006
AB 2695 (Goldberg-D) Domestic violence: fees and payments
Extends, from 2007 to 2010, the sunset on the statute which, as now operational, provides that (1) the minimum mandatory payment imposed on persons granted probation for a domestic violence rime is $400 instead of $200, (2) the allocation of these payments received by counties for county domestic violence program special funds is two-thirds, and (3) the allocation of these payments is received by the state for two domestic violence-related funds is one-third, except as specified. Provides for the continuation of several statutes pertaining to waiving fees associated with restraining orders and injunctions, now set to sunset in 2007.
Chapter 476, Statutes of 2006
ACA 24 (Cohn-D) Personal income tax: Domestic Violence Shelter Services Fund
Provides, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2006, imposition of an additional income tax on the rate of 1/40 percent on that portion of an individual taxpayer's taxable income that exceeds $1 million. Requires that all revenues, less refunds, derived from those taxes be transferred to the Domestic Violence Shelter Services Fund, created by this bill, for allocation by a Domestic Violence Shelter Services Fund Advisory Council, established under this bill, to domestic violence services organizations.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
ACR 99 (Cohn-D) Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Proclaims the month of October 2006 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 130, Statutes of 2006
Child Abuse
SB 359 (Ortiz-D) Child custody
Requires a court to impose supervised visitation, notwithstanding a stipulation to the contrary by the parties or recommendations by the mediator, when the court has granted visitation to a parent, and has been made aware of evidence of risk to the child indicating that it is necessary to protect the child from risk of harm due to physical or sexual abuse, neglect, substance abuse by a parent or a member of the parent's household, or domestic violence perpetrated by that parent or the risk of abduction by a parent.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 613 (Denham-R) Contacting minors: sex offenses
Provides that a person who contacts or attempts to contact a minor for purposes of engaging in child abuse, sex crimes against children or possession of child pornography shall be treated as if the person were convicted of an attempt to commit the specified crime.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1297 (Battin-R) Soliciting minors to engage in sexual activity
Provides that it is a felony, punishable by imprisonment of three, six, or eight years, to solicit or induce, or attempt to solicit or induce, a minor to engage in prostitution, lewd acts, pandering, a specified sex crime or any "sexual activity." Allows prosecution and conviction for this crime where the defendant believed he was soliciting or inducing a minor to engage in sexual activity. Allows prosecution and conviction for this crime where the defendant should have know he or she was inducing or soliciting a minor.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SCR 67 (Speier-D) Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week
Recognizes April 16 through April 26, 2006, as Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week.
Resolution Chapter 28, Statutes of 2006
SCR 97 (Battin-R) Child Abuse Prevention Month
Acknowledges the month of April 2006 as Child Abuse Prevention Month and encourages the people of the State of California to work together to support youth-serving child abuse prevention activities in their communities and schools.
Resolution Chapter 18, Statutes of 2006
A similar resolution was ACR 39 (Tran) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
AB 253 (Aghazarian-R) Child abuse
Creates a new felony, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in state prison where any parent, guardian or caregiver of a minor unlawfully uses cocaine, cocaine base, PCP, LSD, heroin, methamphetamine or 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine in the presence of, or witnessed by, a minor under his/her care.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 525 (Chu-D) Mandatory Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
Amends several provisions of the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act to conform the procedures for reporting of instances of child abuse or neglect, emotional damage, evidenced by states of being or behavior, including, but not limited to, severe anxiety, depression, withdrawal, or untoward aggressive behavior toward self or others.
Chapter 701, Statutes of 2006
AB 743 (Strickland-R) Minors: rape
Expands the list of offenses which, when alleged against a minor age 16 or older, allows the prosecutor to charge the case directly in adult court and, when alleged against a minor age 14 or older, creates a presumption that the minor should be tried as an adult by adding rape of an unconscious person to that list.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1153 (La Suer-R) Improper contact with children
Creates a new misdemeanor that is committed where a person 21 years of age or older does the following: (1) The adult contacts or communicates with a minor who is 12 years of age or younger for the purpose of luring the child away from home without the consent of the child's parent, and (2) the adult pretends to be a minor with the intent to have sexual contact, or to commit lewd and lascivious acts upon the minor.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1257 (Umberg-D) Child pornography crimes
Provides that any person who uses a minor to assist in distribution or exhibition of obscene material, or uses a minor in the distribution to adults of depictions of minor engaged in actual or simulated sexual conduct without commercial considerations, or uses a minor in the distribution to minors of depictions of minors engaged in actually or simulated sexual conduct, is guilty of an alternate felony-misdemeanor, and that any person who distributes or exchanges with an adult any material that depicts a minor personally engaging in actual or simulated sexual conduct, as defined, is guilty of an alternate felony/misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1873 (Torrico-D) Child protection: safe surrender of newborns
Allows the safe surrender of a baby up to 30 days old, rather than 72 hours, under the Safety Surrendered Baby program. Permits a fire agency to designate a safe surrender site, upon approval of the local governing body. Specifies that a safe surrender site and its personnel have no liability for a surrendered child prior to taking actual physical custody of the child.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1907 (Lieu-D) Office of Child Abuse Prevention
Adds marriage and family therapists to the list of eligible therapists who may comprise the multidisciplinary personnel forming a team of three or more persons trained to provide child abuse prevention services under existing law.
Chapter 99, Statutes of 2006
AB 2075 (Cohn-D) Domestic violence and child abuse: joinder of courts
Specifies that provisions proscribing child abuse and crimes of domestic violence may be charged in the same accusatory pleading under separate courts, subject to the discretion of the court to try the counts separately, as specified. Provides that if "two or more accusatory pleadings are filed in the same court alleging any crime of domestic violence, as specified, the court may order them to be consolidated."
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2225 (Mountjoy-R) Amber alerts: false reports
Expands the existing misdemeanor penalty for making a false report of an emergency by expressly including any situation that results in, or could result in, an activation of the emergency alert system, as specified.
Chapter 227, Statutes of 2006
AB 2304 (Sharon Runner-R) Mandatory child abuse reporting
Adds "commercial computer technicians," as specified, as a mandated child abuse or neglect reports and makes additional, related changes to this law.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2976 (Mountjoy-R) Child abuse: reporting
Creates the "Child Sexual Abuse, Exploitation, and Rape Reporting and Deterrence Act of 2006," which requires specified medical personnel to promptly report to a law enforcement or child protective service agency their knowledge that a minor has contracted a sexually transmitted disease or is pregnant.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Sex Offenders
SB 34* (Florez-D) Sex offenders
Removes provisions that allow registered sex offenders to apply for exclusion from the Internet web site.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
SB 129 (Margett-R) Biological evidence: storage
Provides that the biological material that must be stored from a criminal case for the length of the person's incarceration shall be limited to evidence in any felony case and misdemeanor sex offense cases.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 448 (Poochigian-R) Sex crimes on a child
Increases the punishment to a life term in cases where a defendant commits aggravated kidnapping of a child for the purpose of forced lewd conduct. Makes it an alternate felony/misdemeanor ("wobbler"), depending on the age of the child, for a defendant to solicit a minor to engage in a lewd act.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 449 (Denham-R) Crimes
Adds to the list of offenses punishable by life in prison without the possibility of parole, certain sex offenses committed against specified minors. Establishes the offenses of soliciting a person under the age of 14 years, or soliciting a person 14 or 15 years of age who is at least 10 years younger than the person, to join in the commission of that crime. Provides that soliciting for that crime, a person under 14 years of age will be punishable by a term of imprisonment in the state prison. Provides that soliciting for that crime, a person who is 14 or 15 years of age and who is at least 10 years younger than the person will be punishable by a term of imprisonment in a county jail, or in the state prison.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 544 (Battin-R) Sex offenders: custody and visitation
Creates an absolute bar to awarding custody or unsupervised visitation of a child under 14, regardless of the best interests of the child, to registered sex offenders convicted of crimes against a minor or anyone convicted of specified child abuse or neglect offenses.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 588* (Runner-R) The Sexual Predator Punishment & Control Act: Jessica's Law
Enacts the Sexual Predatory Punishment and Control Act.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 613 (Denham-R) Offenses against minors
Provides that a person who contacts or attempts to contact a minor for purposes of engaging in child abuse, sex crimes against children or possession of child pornography shall be treated as if the person were convicted of an attempt to commit the specified crime.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 629 (Dutton-R) Vehicle drivers license: registered sex offenders
Requires a sex offender to renew his or her driver's license every two years and requires the Department of Justice to report to the Legislature on the effectiveness of this program.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 722* (Denham-R) Lewd conduct offenders
Requires a person convicted of lewd conduct with a child under the age of 12 to remain on parole for life and to require any such person be electronically monitored in the community.
(Failed passage Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 807 (Simitian-D) Evidence: communications
Exempts from the privilege to refuse to disclose a penitential communication writings regarding or relating to sexual abuse, misconduct, or molestation.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 864 (Poochigian-R) Sexually violent predators
Lengthens the period of civil commitment for those found to be sexually violent predators from two years to an indeterminate term.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 865 (Poochigian-R) Sexually violent predators
Provides that continuous sexual abuse of a child is a qualifying prior offense for purposes of the Sexually Violent Predator (SVP) Act. Provides that assault with intent to commit a sex crime is a qualifying offense for purposes of the SVP Act. Eliminates references to subdivisions defining rape and sexual penetration by force in the descriptions of qualifying prior offenses under the SVP Act. Provides that an adult conviction for a sexually violent offense for which the person (who was a minor at the time of the commission of the offense) was housed in the Department of the California Youth Authority pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code Section 1731.5. Provides that the details of an alleged prior qualifying conviction, typically to prove that a crime was committed by force or duress, can be shown by police reports.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1044 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offenders
Expands the reach of the Sexually Violent Predators (SVP) Act. Expands the crime of aggravated kidnapping for purposes of committing a sex crime. Expands the one-strike sex life-term sex-crime sentencing law. Expands the habitual sex offender life-term law. Expands the crime of assault with intent to commit a sex crime. Amends the enhancement scheme for defendants convicted of lewd conduct with specified prior conviction. Creates a new form of criminal offense for contracting minors with intent to commit a sex crime. Amends the section concerning consecutive sentences for sex crimes and enhancements. Requires electronic monitoring with GPS of parolees who were convicted on or after January 1, 2005 of a sex offense for which the parolee must register. Increases the period of parole for various sex offenders. Makes numerous additional technical and substantive changes.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1045 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offender registration
Amends the sex offender registration statute to provide that local law enforcement agencies are not required to have more than one registration site to serve the areas over which they have jurisdiction.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1051 (Hollingsworth-R) Juvenile sex offenders
Prohibits the placement of juvenile wards of the court who have been adjudicated for a "sexually related" offense in licensed community care facilities located within one-half mile of any public or private school (K-8).
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1074 (Hollingsworth-R) High-risk sex offenders
Requires that every "high-risk sex offender" shall be monitored by a Global Positioning System device for the term of his or her parole and for the rest of his or her life while in California.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1098 (Hollingsworth-R) Sexually violent predators
Provides that a person could be found to be a sexually violent predator if he or she committed one qualifying sex offense if the victim is of the prior crime was under the age of 14 years and the other requirements of the law are met.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1128* (Alquist-D) Sex offenders
Increases the prison term for child rape to 25 years to life. Expands the Megan's Law database. Toughens penalties for child pornography and Internet predators. Ensures police can use on-line decoys to catch Internet predators. Discourages prosecutors from offering plea bargains in sex offense cases. Gives state and local officials a new system to monitor dangerous parolees. Increases parole time for violent sexual offenses. Keeps sex offenders away from schools, parks and other places where vulnerable populations, including the elderly and disabled, congregate.
Chapter 337, Statutes of 2006
SB 1178* (Speier-D) Sex offenders: electronic monitoring
Requires, commencing July 1, 2008, every adult male who is convicted of specified sex offenses to be assessed for the risk of reoffending, as specified, and provides that those that are deemed to be of moderate-high or high risk shall be monitored continuously electronically while on parole with specified exceptions. Requires sex offenders to be subject to assessment using the State-Authorized Risk Assessment Tool for Sex Offenders (SARATSO). Establishes the SARATSO Review Committee with specified functions.
Chapter 336, Statutes of 2006
SB 1182 (Battin-R) Sex offenders
Adds persons convicted of specified felony child pornography offenses to the list of offenders whose zip code and community of residence are included on the publicly available Internet web site (known as the "Megan's Law" list) maintained by the Department of Justice regarding persons required to register as sex offenders.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1240* (Hollingsworth-R) SAFE teams
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Corrections Standards Authority to develop and administer a grant program to fund local agencies' Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Teams. Appropriates an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the State Controller for distribution to local agencies for this purpose.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1313* (Denham-R) Sexually violent predators
Provides that if probation is granted to a person convicted of committing lewd or lascivious acts on a person who is less than 12 years of age, he or she shall be required to agree to electronic monitoring or supervision as a condition of probation. Provides that in the case of any inmate sentenced for commission of lewd or lascivious acts on a person less than 12 years of age, the period of parole shall be 20 years.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1392 (Florez-D) Registered sex offenders
Makes it a misdemeanor for any person required to register as a sex offender to live in a county in which a facility of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is located.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1502 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offenders: group homes
Prohibits any person convicted of any felony from owning, operating, managing or being employed within a residential facility under contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for parolees if there is one or more registered sex offender placed or residing in the facility. Prohibits any person convicted of any felony from owning, operating, managing or being employed within a group home where one or more convicted sex offenders are placed or reside. Authorizes the Department of Social Services to revoke the license of any group home where one or more convicted sex offenders are placed or reside if the owner, operator, manager or any employee is a convicted felon.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1743 (Bowen-D) Change of name: sexual assault victim
Exempts an action for name change, filed for the purpose of avoiding domestic violence or stalking or where the petitioner is a victim of sexual assault, from the requirement for publication of the order to show cause. Makes technical cross-referencing changes in the Evidence Code dealing with privileged communications between victims and counselors to correctly refer to the privilege as the counselor-victim privilege and the counselor as a sexual assault or domestic violence counselor or human trafficking caseworker.
Double-joined with AB 2303 (Assembly Judiciary Committee).
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2006
SB 1820 (Battin-R) Custody and visitation: sex offenders
Prohibits a court from granting custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child to a registered sex offender if the victim was a minor, unless the court finds clear and convincing evidence that there is no significant risk to the child and states its reasons, in writing, on the record.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCR 109 (Romero-D) Denim Day California
Proclaims April 19, 2006, as Denim Day California, and encourages everyone to wear jeans on that day to help communicate the message that there is no excuse for, and never an invitation to, rape or commit a sexual assault.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 96 (Cohn-D) High-risk sex offender parolees: global tracking
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to provide a written report to the Governor and Legislature describing an action plan for employing global positioning satellite devices as part of the intensive and specialized parole supervision of high-risk offenders.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 210 (Vargas-D) Sex offenses
Provides that the period of parole for a person convicted of lewd or lascivious acts with, or continuous sexual abuse of, a child under 14 years of age is life.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 211 (Cohn-D) Sexual offender treatment: minors
Requires that specified sexual offender treatment be provided to a ward for the commitment of crimes of rape, sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts, oral copulation, or acts of sexual penetration.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 233 (Haynes-R) CalWORKs: eligibility disqualification
Denies assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program to persons convicted of felony crimes involving funds or sexual molestation of children, with certain exceptions.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 242 (Vargas-D) Sex offenses: medical providers: minors
Increases from an additional three year term to an additional 15 years for any person who is a primary care provider in a day care facility and who is convicted of one or more of certain felony violations where the victim of the crime was a minor entrusted to his or her care by the minor's parents or guardian, a court, any public agency charged with the provision of social services, or a probation department. Provides a term of three times the usual penalty for specified sex offenses where the victims are minors, the offender is a primary health care provider, and the victim is a resident in a health care facility.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 335 (Walters-R) Crime: bail
Requires judges, in considering the seriousness of the offense alleged when setting or denying bail, to include consideration of an alleged lewd and lascivious act involving a child victim. Creates a three-year pilot program in San Diego County requiring any person charged with child molestation, who is released on bail to wear an electronic global positioning system (GPS) monitoring device. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt guidelines for the implementation of the GPS monitoring program.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 438 (Parra-D) Sex offenders
Allows a lessor of residential real property to refuse to provide housing to, or to evict, registered sex offenders whose address must be made public pursuant to the Megan's Law Internet web site.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 440 (Matthews-D) Sexually violent predators
Authorizes the Department of Mental Health to contract with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for supervision of sexually violent predators who have been conditionally released into the community under the forensic conditional release program.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 743 (Strickland-R) Minors: rape
Expands the list of offenses which, when alleged against a minor age 16 or older, allows the prosecutor to charge the case directly to adult court and, when alleged against a minor age 14 or older, creates a presumption that the minor should be tried as an adult by adding rape of an unconscious person to that list.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1015* (Chu-D) Sex Offender Management Board
Creates a Sex Offender Management Board to address any issues, concerns, and problems related to the community management of adult sex offenders.
Chapter 338, Statutes of 2006
AB 1080 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of the Youth Authority: sex offenders
Prohibits the Department of the Youth Authority from placing any offender released on parole and convicted of a sex offense, as specified, from residing in a location within one-half mile of any school, grades K-8. Provides that this does not apply to those released in parole into the custody of their legal parent or guardian.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1106 (Strickland-R) Crimes
Adds continuous sexual abuse of a child to the list of "one-strike" sex offenses that result in life in prison with possibility of parole. Expands the felony of soliciting another person to commit specified sex offenses, punishable by two, three, or four years in state prison, to include soliciting another person to join in the commission of the crime. Adds lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14 to the list of crimes that subject the offender to life in prison with possibility of parole when the purpose of the crime was kidnapping.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1120* (Benoit-R) Persons evaluated under the Sexually Violent Predator Act
Creates a Law Enforcement Consortium to develop policy and foster cooperation and coordination in the release and supervision of parolees. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contact specified law enforcement entities when releasing a sexually violent predator to a county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1152 (La Suer-R) Global positioning system device
Requires parolees defined as high-risk sex offenders to be monitored by a global positioning system (GPS) device for their parole term and requires the GPS device to compare the movement of the offenders with crime incidents reported to local law enforcement agencies.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1153 (La Suer-R) Improper contact with children
Creates a misdemeanor that is committed where a person 21 years of age or older does the following: (1) The adult contacts or communicates with a minor who is 12 years of age or younger for the purpose of luring the child away from home without he consent of the child's parent. (2) The adult pretends to be a minor with the intent to have sexual contact, or to commit lewd and lascivious acts upon the minor.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1422 (Bogh-R) Long-term health care facilities: sexual offenders
Creates a special notification for registered sex offenders who apply to, or live in, long-term health care facilities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1427 (Mountjoy-R) Abortions: minors
Requires a physician or surgeon performing an abortion on a minor to retain sufficient tissue of the aborted fetus to permit DNA testing for the purposes of determining paternity and providing potential evidence in sex crimes cases.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1446 (Karnette-D) Crime
Authorizes enhanced prison penalties for those convicted of assault with intent to commit specified sex crimes if the defendant used a weapon, was armed with a weapon or inflicted great bodily injury in the commission of the offenses.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1551 (Sharon Runner-R) Sexual predators
Provides that kidnapping for lewd conduct can be prosecuted as "aggravated kidnapping," which is subject to a life prison term. Provides that kidnapping for purposes of rape in concert or sexual penetration in concert can be prosecuted as "aggravated kidnapping," which is subject to a life prison term. Adds continuous sexual abuse of a child to the list of qualifying offenses in the "one strike" sex crime law, under which life terms of 15 or 25 years are imposed if specified aggravated factors are established.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1683 (Shirley Horton-R) Sex offenders
Requires the Department of Mental Health to provide the court and law enforcement with copies of specified information relating to the monitoring and supervision of a sexually violent predator proposed for outpatient treatment in the community.
Chapter 339, Statutes of 2006
AB 1788 (Cohn-D) Drivers licenses: registered sex offenders
Establishes more restricted driver's license requirements for registered sex offenders.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1791 (Bermudez-D) Sex offender parolees
Prohibits any inmate released on parole for willfully and lewdly committing any lewd or lascivious act on a child of 14 or 15 years where the person was at least 10 years older than the child, done with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, from being placed or residing within one-quarter mile of any public or private school, including any or all of kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, for the duration of his or her period of parole.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1812* (Assembly Budget Committee) Sexual assault: budget trailer bill
Makes necessary technical changes to the Budget Act of 2006 which were inadvertently omitted in the Budget which, among other provisions, provides an additional $6 million to the Office of Emergency Services for implementation payments and grants to counties for Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement Teams.
Chapter 733, Statutes of 2006
AB 1841 (Bogh-R) Sexually violent predators
Provides that a petition to request commitment of a person under the Sexually Violent Predator Act to the Department of Mental Health may be filed if an evaluation by one, rather than the concurrence of two, mental health professional finds that person meets the criteria for commitment.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1849* (Leslie-R) Registered sex offenders: disclosure of release data
Requires the Department of Justice to include the year the registrant was released from incarceration on the Megan's Law web site on or before July 1, 2010.
Chapter 886, Statutes of 2006
AB 1900 (Lieu-D) Registered sex offenders
Expands and clarifies the current proscription against registered sex offenders working with children to include employers of independent contractors, except as narrowly provided.
Double-jointed with AB 2263 (Spitzer-R).
Chapter 340, Statutes of 2006
AB 1911* (Garcia-R) SAFE teams
Appropriates $15 million from the General Fund to the State Controller for implementation of county and regional Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement team programs from January 1, 2007 to January 10, 2010.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1913 (Garcia-R) Transient Sex offenders: tracking devices
Allows a local law enforcement charged with monitoring a person who must register as a sex offender pursuant to existing law and who is transient, as specified, the ability to track that offender using a global positioning system (GPS) device for as long as the person is transient. Applies only to homeless sex offenders who have been convicted of failing to register in the last two years, or who have been determined to be a sexually violent predator, as specified.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1996 (Bogh-R) Testimony: sexual offenses: witnesses
Extends existing procedures that apply when the sexual history of a testifying witness is offered to attack the credibility of the witness, to witnesses testifying about prior sexual offenses of a defendant.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2006
AB 2006 (La Malfa-R) Dependent children
Authorizes a peace officer, without a warrant, to take into temporary custody any minor in the immediate care and custody of a parent or guardian who is arrested under specified circumstances, including, if the officer has reasonable cause for believing the minor is in immediate danger of physical or sexual abuse, or the physical environment or the fact that the minor will be left unattended poses in immediate threat to the minor's health or safety.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2049 (Spitzer-R) Sex offenders: parole
Prohibits a registered sex offender on parole, as specified, from having any contact or communication with the victim or the victim's immediate family.
Chapter 735, Statutes of 2006
AB 2058 (Cohn-D) Lewd conduct
Expands existing provisions of law that make it a wobbler for a person to commit any lewd and lascivious act upon a minor who is 14 or 15 years of age to also include minors who are 16 and 17 years of age. Expressly states that this provision shall not preclude prosecution and punishment under other provisions of law that provide for a greater penalty.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2196 (Spitzer-R) Child day care: registered sex offenders
Requires child care facilities to give parents information regarding Internet-bases state web sites with information about registered sex offenders.
Chapter 208, Statutes of 2006
AB 2232 (La Suer-R) Sexual battery: minors
Creates a new crime of sexual battery to include circumstances where the offender is in a position of special trust over the minor and is more than three years older than the minor.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2238 (La Malfa-R) Elections: registered sex offenders
Requires all registered sex offenders who register to vote to be permanent absentee voters.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2263 (Spitzer-R) Registered sex offenders: working with minors
Requires registered sex offenders to disclose their status as a registrant if they are going to work or volunteer in a setting with minors where the registrant, even if they are accompanied, will be required to touch the minor on more than an incidental and occasional basis.
Chapter 341, Statutes of 2006
AB 2603 (Parra-D) Discrimination: sex offenders
States the intent of the Legislature to address the needs of property owners and tenants for safe rental housing in a manner that is consistent with the goals and purposes of the Megan's Law sex offender registration requirement and state law on civil rights.
(Died in Assembly Rules Committee)
AB 2615 (Tran-R) Sex offenses: disclosure of victim information
Expressly authorizes probation officers to receive victim identification information in sexual assault cases.
Chapter 92, Statutes of 2006
AB 2635 (Vargas-D) Sex offenders
Makes it a crime punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000, by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment for any person required to register as a sex offender to knowingly be within 300 feet of specified areas where children may be present.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2636 (Vargas-D) Sexually violent predators
Adds local probationers, state parolees, and federal inmates to the list of persons who may be referred to the Department of Mental Health for evaluation and potential civil commitment as sexually violent predators.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2712 (Leno-D) Housing: sex offenders
Provides that no duty shall arise on the part of the lessor solely for renting or leasing residential real property or a mobilehome park or manufactured housing community, to a person who is required to register as a sex offender in this state or has been convicted as a sex offender in another jurisdiction. Provides that upon notifying tenants of the existence of the Megan's Law web site which lists the criminal history and address or community of residence of sex offenders in California, the lessor of the real property is not required, and has no duty in law to provide a lessee or transferee of residential real property, any additional information regarding proximity of sex offenders other than that notice. Double-joints with SB 1128 (Alquist-D) and AB 1849 (Leslie-R).
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2875 (Pavley-D) Confidential settlement agreements: sex offenses
Prohibits a confidential settlement agreement in any civil action "the factual foundation for which establishes a cause of action for civil damages for act that may be prosecuted as a felony sex offense."
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2006
AB 2893 (Mountjoy-R) Sex offenders: child custody and visitation
Provides that a child may not be placed in a home with a registered sex offender whose victim was a minor, or have unsupervised visitation with that offender, when a court fails to state its reasons for finding no significant risk to the child in writing or on the record.
Chapter 207, Statutes of 2006
ACR 137 (Maze-R) Sexual Assault Awareness Month
Designates, henceforth, the month of April as Sexual Assault Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 37, Statutes of 2006
AJR 50 (Vargas-D) Sexually violent predators
Urges the President and the Congress to take legislative action to require the federal Board of Prisons to refer to the Department of Mental Health for evaluation all person sin its custody who are scheduled to be released into California who meet the statutory definition of a sexually violent predator.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Controlled Substances
SB 152 (Speier-D) Pseudoephedrine
Requires a pharmacist and retail distributor, as defined, to store pseudoephedrine in a locked area. Requires the purchaser to provide valid identification prior to purchase and requires staff of the retail distributor to be trained in identification of pseudoephedrine products and in the usage of pseudoephedrine to make methamphetamine. Requires than an electronic system be set up by a pharmacy and retail distributor to track the sale of pseudoephedrine and assure that no more than three packages or no more than nine grams are sold within a 30-day period to a single purchaser.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 556* (Migden-D) Drug treatment
Allows the Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs to waive the requirement that no more than 25 percent of the money expended by a county for the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act (SACPA) implementation be for "criminal justice activities"; allows a court to retain a probationer in SACPA upon a third or subsequent drug-related probation violation; allows the parole authority to retain a parolee in the SACPA upon a second drug-related people violation; insures that no person is denied SACPA treatment because of a co-occurring psychiatric disorder; extends the maximum length of treatment and aftercare in SACPA from 18 to 24 months; provides that the court shall deem a person to have successfully completed SACPA treatment in a narcotics replacement program if he/she has participated in treatment for at least three months and the treating physician or program reports adequate compliance with the program; and allows funding for narcotics replacement treatment for up to 18 months, regardless of whether the charges have been dismissed.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 797 (Romero-D) Possession of not more than 28.5 grams of marijuana
Makes a first-time conviction of possession of less than 28.5 grams of marijuana an infraction, and for a second or subsequent offense, guilty of an infraction or misdemeanor, that is punishable by a fine of up to $250, but no jail time.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 803* (Ducheny-D) Ongoing Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005
Makes several changes to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005, also known by its ballot initiative designation, Proposition 36.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1137* (Ducheny-D) Budget Act of 2006: trailer bill: Proposition 36 reforms
Makes statutory changes to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2006, necessary to implement the Budget Act of 2006.
Chapter 63, Statutes of 2006
SB 1299 (Speier-D) Chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine or PCP
Provides that it is a felony, punishable by 16 months, two or three years in prison, to possess specified chemicals that are precursors to methamphetamine or PCP when the person in possession has the intent to sell, transfer, or otherwise furnish to another person with the knowledge that they will be used to manufacture methamphetamine or PCP.
Chapter 646, Statutes of 2006
SB 1318 (Cedillo-D) Sales near rehabilitation or homeless shelters
Provides that a person who engages in drug commerce within 1000 feet of a rehabilitation center or homeless shelter shall receive a one-year enhancement of sentence.
Chapter 650, Statutes of 2006
SB 1366 (Aanestad-R) Controlled substances
Removes the requirement that authorized persons write prescriptions for controlled substances on a specialized secured prescription form and delete the exceptions therefore. Deletes provisions in existing law that make it a crime to counterfeit a secured controlled substance prescription form.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1422 (Margett-R) Penal Code Omnibus Bill
Makes numerous technical and cross referencing changes.
Chapter 901, Statutes of 2006
SB 1458 (Simitian-D) Illegal drug labs
Establishes a mitigation fee on the manufacture and importation of pseudoephedrine, effective September 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1500 (Speier-D) Drug programs
Establishes the Methamphetamine Deterrence Program which requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to develop and implement a statewide prevention campaign to deter the abuse of methamphetamine in California.
Chapter 662, Statutes of 2006
SB 1813 (Runner-R) Unlawful detainer: controlled substances
Includes the cities of Lancaster, Palmdale, and Victorville in the list of specified cities authorized to hear an unlawful detainer action brought by a city attorney or city prosecutor on behalf of the people against any person who remains in possession of leased real property after the lease is terminated because the lessor was using the real property for purposes of selling controlled substances.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 46 (Walters-R) Ecstasy (MDMA, XTC)
Makes 3, 4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, XCT, Ecstasy) a Schedule I controlled substance unless it is contained in a drug product that is Federal Drug Administration approved; in which case, it will be a Schedule III controlled substance.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 125 (Dymally-D) Cocaine
Provides identical punishments for violations of laws related to cocaine powder and cocaine base "crack cocaine."
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 336 (Huff-R) Controlled substances
Expands two existing crimes, (1) an existing alternate felony/misdemeanor ("wobbler") against the use of false compartments to transport controlled substances to include their use to store, smuggle or transport a firearm, explosive device or at least $5,000 in proceeds from the sale of controlled substances, and (2) an existing felony against the building or design of false compartments for the transport of controlled substances to include their building or design for use to transport firearms, explosive devices or at least $5,000 in proceeds from the sale of controlled substances.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 631 (Leno-D) Narcotic treatment programs: mobile service units
Requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to create a licensing category for mobile narcotic treatment programs.
Chapter 544, Statutes of 2006
AB 1147 (Leno-D) Industrial hemp
Defines industrial hemp as a legitimate, valuable and non-psychoactive agricultural product.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Narcotic programs
Human services budget trailer bill which, among other provisions, directs any increase in the licensing fee for narcotic treatment programs to changes in the Consumer Price Index, eliminates the sunset provision of the Comprehensive Drug Court program, adopts language that reappropriates unspent Proposition 36 funding that has been excluded due to audit exceptions, and requires the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to present to the Legislature a plan for the prevention of methamphetamine use in 2007 and 2008.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 2057 (Cogdill-R) Controlled substances
Requires that any manufacturer, wholesaler, retailer, or other person or entity in this state that sells, transfers, or otherwise furnishes to any person or entity in this or any other state any of a list of substances shall submit a report to the Department of Justice of all of those transactions on a monthly basis. Deletes the exemption from the reporting requirements for specified manufacturers or wholesalers licensed by the Board of Pharmacy. Revises the exemption from the reporting requirements relating to analytical research facilities to provide that the exemption shall apply to any analytical research facility that purchases no more than 200 milliliters of a liquid controlled chemical substance or one kilogram of a solid controlled chemical substance, except in the case of the purchase of ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, norpseudoephedrine, or phenylpropanolamine, in which case the facility may purchase no more than nine solid grams.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2090 (Lieu-D) Controlled substances
Creates, until January 1, 2010, a one-year sentence enhancement for the sale or possession for sale of specified controlled substances on the grounds of a public park or ocean-front beach.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2336 (McCarthy-R) Controlled substances
Revises the distribution of asset forfeiture funds, commending July 1, 20007, deletes the 24 percent allocation to the General Fund and increases the allocation to the state, local, or state and local law enforcement entities that participated in the seizure from 65 percent to 89 percent. Increases, commencing July 1, 2007, the allocation to the prosecutorial agency to 15 percent and allocates six percent to the Victim-Witness Assistance Fund.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2694 (Canciamilla-D) Registration for controlled substance offenders
Deletes the requirement that the official in charge of a prison, jail, et cetera, send to the Department of Justice the form signed by a controlled substance offender who is being released from custody stating that the paroled person understands his or her duty to register in his or her place of residence as a controlled substance offender.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2986 (Mullin-D) Controlled substances
Requires designated prescription forms for controlled substances and prescriptions for controlled substances to contain additional information pertaining to name or contact information of the prescription user or research subject and refill information; adds Schedule IV drugs to the controlled substances subject to the electronic reporting and monitoring system under the Controlled Substance Utilization Review and Evaluation System program; requires the information provided to the Department of Justice by the dispensing pharmacist for each prescription for a Schedule II, III, or IV controlled substance to contain additional information pertaining to the ultimate user or research subject and information on the number of refills ordered; and adds refill information to the items required to be contained in records created and maintained by certain prescribers for Schedule II, III, and IV controlled substances.
Chapter 286, Statutes of 2006
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses
SB 3 (Torlakson-D) Double fine zones
Authorizes a double fine zone on a designated portion of Vasco Road in Alameda County and Contra Costa Counties until January 1, 2010. Standardizes the general criteria and terms affecting all double fine zones. Increases the base fines for specified moving violations.
Chapter 179, Statutes of 2006
SB 95 (Murray-D) Vehicles: ignition interlock device
Makes it a misdemeanor or felony for a person to operate a motor vehicle without an interlock device who is required to operate a motor vehicle that is equipped with a functioning ignition interlock device.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 126 (Runner-R) Emergency services: liability
Imposes individual liability for the cost of emergency services resulting from the unlawful flight from police officers.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 176 (Denham-R) Traffic collision: fatality: testing
Authorizes non-consensual blood alcohol testing, without arrest or probable cause, by extending existing implied consent for blood alcohol content testing of drivers arrested for driving under the influence to drivers who cause fatal automobile accidents. If the driver refuses to take the test, his or her driver's license will be suspended or revoked.
(Failed passage in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 212 (Lowenthal-D) Lapses of consciousness: reports to Dept. of Motor Vehicles
Repeals, effective January 1, 2008, the requirement for physicians to immediately report to the local health officer any time a patient, 14 years or older, is diagnosed with a condition characterized by lapses of consciousness and, instead, allows physicians not to report on patients with lapse of consciousness disorders if those disorders can be controlled and stabilized within 30 days of the initial diagnosis.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 466 (Kuehl-D) Mobile photo radar enforcement system
Authorizes the City of Beverly Hills to use a mobile photo radar enforcement system for local speed enforcement, under specified conditions, until January 1, 2010.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
A similar bill was SB 1300 (Kuehl-D) which died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee.
SB 591 (Cedillo-D) Impounding vehicles
Provides that a person shall be exempted from the existing 30 day impound period where the offense involves a person who has never been issued a driver's license due to an inability to meet the requirement in Vehicle Code Section 12801.5 that the applicant's presence in the United States is authorized under federal law.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 598 (Torlakson-D) Leaving the scene of an accident
Increases penalties for leaving the scene of an accident when the defendant has a prior driving under the influence related offense within 10 years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 806 (Speier-D) Provisional licensing program
Increases restrictions on teenage drivers operating a motor vehicle under a provisional driver's license (PDL) and increases punitive measures taken against those drivers (and their parents) who violate PDL restrictions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 823 (Margett-R) Provisional licensing program: speed contest
Requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to inform an applicant for a California driver's license, who is between the ages of 16 and 18, prior to issuing a license, of the hazards and penalties associated with violating a statute prohibiting a person from engaging in a motor vehicle speed contest on a highway.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SB 988 (Migden-D) Safety Awareness Zones: Golden Gate Bridge
Establishes the criteria for designating highway segments as Safety Awareness Zones and specifies the Golden Gate Bridge as being eligible for designation as a Safety Awareness Zone.
Chapter 593, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was AB 2398 (Yee-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
SB 1021 (Bowen-D) Infractions: bodily injury or great bodily injury
Creates a new public offense for operating a motor vehicle and causing bodily injury or great bodily injury.
Chapter 898, Statutes of 2006
SB 1404 (Machado-D) Parking violations: street cleaning
Specifies that there is no parking violation for a person who is parked on a street during the designated street sweeping times if that sweeping did not occur and delays the start of this provision until January 1, 2008.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1408 (Cedillo-D) Police: notice of recovered vehicle
Requires the original reporting police agency, upon recovery of a reported stolen, unlawfully taken or unlawfully driven vehicle, to notify, within 48 hours, by mail, the reporting party of the vehicle recovery.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1503 (Poochigian-R) Vehicle theft
Makes numerous changes to existing law relative to auto theft, including increasing the penalties and adding enhancements.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1593 (Runner-R) Vehicles: removal: private property
Requires a private property owner to verify that the towing company used to remove a vehicle from private property has a valid motor carrier permit.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
SB 1613 (Simitian-D) Vehicles: wireless telephones
Prohibits, beginning July 1, 2008, a driver from using a wireless phone while operating a vehicle, unless the phone is specifically designed and configured to allow hands-free operation and is used in that manner and prohibits the use of a wireless phone while driving a school bus or transit vehicle, except as specified.
Chapter 290, Statutes of 2006
SB 1735 (Cox-R) Vehicles: police pursuits
Makes it a wobbler for someone to drive down the wrong side of the road while fleeing a peace officer and provides for a fine for this offense of not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000.
Chapter 688, Statutes of 2006
SB 1756 (Migden-D) Driving under the influence
Requires that a person convicted of a first time offense of driving under the influence (DUI) without injury, with a blood alcohol level of 0.20 percent or higher, who is referred to a nine-month alcohol rehabilitation program, shall have their license suspended for 10 months rather than six months, to conform the license suspension to the duration of the DUI program for first time offenders and allow for the provision of a restricted license for the program period.
Chapter 692, Statutes of 2006
AB 4 (Bogh-R) DUI: permanent revocation of driver's license
Revokes the driver's license of a person convicted of a third or subsequent violation of specified driving under the influence (DUI) provisions. Requires an ignition interlock device be installed for persons convicted of a DUI with a blood-alcohol concentration of 0.16 percent if they have been convicted of a previous DUI within 10 years.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 406 (Haynes-R) Driving under the influence: distinctive DUI license plates
Allows the court, in the case of a person convicted as specified above and where at least one of those convictions involved a concentration of alcohol in the person's blood of 0.16 percent or more, by weight, at the time of the arrest to order the person to have distinctive license plates issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles in a described design and color format, including containing the letters "DUI" mounted on each motor vehicle, except as specified, driven by that person for a period imposed by the court, but not to exceed the term of the current probation period. Makes it a misdemeanor to drive a vehicle without the distinctive license plates, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2099 (Haynes-R) which died in Assembly Public Safety Committee.
AB 570 (Villines-R) Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer
Separates the section in existing law dealing with a person fleeing a peace officer with a willful and wanton disregard of persons from the section that addresses the disregard of property.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 753 (Gordon-D) Driving under the influence
Requires the suspension of a driver's license for persons over 21 years of age and who are convicted of specified violations regarding under age drinking.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 963 (Garcia-R) Provisional driver's license: cellular telephone restriction
Prohibits a person issued a provisional driver's license from using a cellular telephone and other mobile electronic devices while operating a motor vehicle, unless the licensee is calling 911 or another emergency services number.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
AB 1148 (Nakanishi-R) Vehicles: ice cream trucks
Prohibits a person from vending from an ice cream truck on a public street, alley, or highway unless the truck is lawfully parked adjacent to the curb, as required under existing law for other vendor's vehicles.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1447 (Garcia-R) Provisional driver's licenses: restrictions
Increases the penalties that a court may impose on a licensed provisional driver between the ages of 16 and 18 years of age who violates specified restrictions placed on that provisional license.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 1781 (Mountjoy-R) Highways: victim signs
Deletes the January 1, 2007, sunset date for the requirement that the Department of Transportation place memorial signs at the request of family members for victims of accidents caused by individuals under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2006
AB 1832 (Bermudez-D) Remote alcohol monitoring systems
Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning the usefulness of continuous remote alcohol monitoring systems.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1850 (Mountjoy-R) Vehicles: trunk
Prohibits a person operating a motor vehicle from allowing a person to ride in the trunk and makes a violation an infraction.
Chapter 900, Statutes of 2006
AB 1856 (Walters-R) Vehicles: speeding
Increases the penalty for driving in excess of 100 miles per hour and requires the court to suspend a person's driving privilege upon a first conviction.
(Failed passage in Assembly Transportation Committee)
A similar bill was AB 1025 (Walters-R) which died in Assembly Transportation Committee.
AB 1865 (Bogh-R) Driving under the influence: evidence
Provides that in a criminal case in which a defendant is accused of driving under the influence (DUI) with injury, as defined, and if it is alleged that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury on any person other than the defendant, evidence of the defendant's prior DUI acts with injury may be admitted to prove the defendant's conduct, subject to an evidentiary hearing.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1903 (Benoit-R) Driving: controlled substances
Increases driving privilege penalties imposed on a motorist who is found to be driving with a measurable amount of an illegal controlled substance in his or her blood.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1932 (Benoit-R) Traffic violator schools
Makes several changes to traffic violator school licensing, methods of instruction, surety bond requirements, Department of Motor Vehicles fees, completion certificates, and the traffic court referral process.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1941 (Nava-D) Vehicles: bicycles
Specifies a minimum distance that a vehicle must maintain between itself and a bicycle upon a highway.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2154 (Goldberg-D) Car share parking
Allows a city or county to designate a specific area for the exclusive parking of vehicles participating in a vehicle car share program or ridesharing program.
Chapter 189, Statutes of 2006
AB 2190 (Benoit-R) Reckless driving and motor vehicle speed contests
Increases the penalties for drivers engaging in reckless driving and motor vehicle speed contests.
Chapter 432, Statutes of 2006
AB 2253 (Hancock-D) Vehicles: illegal dumping
Provides for the impoundment or forfeiture of the vehicles used in illegal dumping when the dumping is either of commercial quantities or hazardous and the person has prior similar convictions.
Chapter 765, Statutes of 2006
AB 2465 (De La Torre-D) Pedestrian-bicyclist safety
Extends, by one year to January 1, 2008, the sunset on a school pedestrian-bicyclist safety pilot program in the Counties of Alameda, Santa Barbara, and Ventura, and their cities, that receives funds from a portion of the local penalty revenue generated by increased fines imposed for various traffic violations occurring close to a school, and expands the pilot program to Los Angeles County and its cities.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2558 (Benoit-R) Driver's license suspension
Creates an alternate misdemeanor/felony and mandatory jail time for a fourth offense of driving on a suspended license.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2559 (Benoit-R) Driving under the influence: manslaughter
Reorganizes provisions dealing with vehicular manslaughter.
Chapter 91, Statutes of 2006
AB 2599 (Benoit-R) Motor vehicle theft
Increases the penalty for grand theft auto, receiving stolen property, and auto theft by making these offenses punishable as felonies if the person has a prior specified misdemeanor offense conviction.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2605 (Bogh-R) Driving under the influence: sanctions
Increases the penalty for a person under the age of 21 years who has a 0.05 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle from an infraction to a misdemeanor. Increases the penalty for a person convicted of a third driving under the influence offense within 10 years from a misdemeanor to an alternative misdemeanor/felony.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2673 (Bogh-R) Driving under the influence
Creates a new crime of driving with a measurable amount of a controlled substance in a person's blood.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2718 (Walters-R) Traffic violator school
Recasts numerous existing provisions of law as they relate to traffic violator schools.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2752 (Spitzer-R) Driving under the influence
Makes the existing offense of being under 21 years old and driving with a blood alcohol level of .01 percent or greater an infraction instead of a civil violation and increases the infraction penalties for being under 21 and driving with a blood alcohol level of 0.5 percent or greater.
Chapter 899, Statutes of 2006
AB 2808 (Strickland-R) Driver's license: suspension or revocation
Creates two new state prison enhancements for the commission of specified crimes while driving a motor vehicle with a revoked or suspended license or without ever having a license issued.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2820 (Leslie-R) Teenage Driver Safety Program
Requires the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to, in consultation with each school district that maintains one or more high schools with pupils who receive instruction in automobile driver training, develop a three-dimensional film on the subject of the dangers of teenage driving, and procure, whether by purchase, lease or other agreement, at least eight mobile three-dimensional theaters available to tour the state and show the three-dimensional film. Authorizes monies deposited in the special account in the county treasury for school pedestrian-bicyclist safety programs to also be used for the purpose of showing the three-dimensional film and appropriates $6 million from those funds to the Commissioner of the CHP for that purpose.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
AB 2923 (Calderon-D) Graffiti and vandalism
Increases the length of time that a court shall suspend the driver's license of a person convicted of graffiti.
Chapter 434, Statutes of 2006
AB 2955 (Cogdill-R) Traversing traffic control devices
Makes it a misdemeanor to traverse a flare pattern, cone pattern, or other traffic control device, or combination thereof, provided for the regulation of traffic, or provided in any situation where public safety personnel are engaged in traffic control or emergency scene management.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2967 (Sharon Runner-R) Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking
Makes it a wobbler to purchase alcohol for, furnish, give or give away any alcoholic beverage to a person the provider knew or reasonably should have known to be under the age of 21 years, and the person under the age of 21 consumes the alcohol and thereby proximately causes great bodily injury or death to himself, herself or any other person and the provider should have known of the danger.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 3004 (Houston-R) Traffic enforcement
Directs the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway patrol to amend regulations to ensure that all distinctively painted patrol vehicles and motorcycles used by police and traffic officers in Alameda County, as well as other jurisdictions, are authorized to enforce the Vehicle Code.
Chapter 832, Statutes of 2006
AB 3045 (Koretz-D) Ignition interlock device
Requires proof of the installation of an ignition interlock device (IID) before a person can get a restricted license if the court has ordered an IID and prohibits tampering with an IID by the installer, etc.
Chapter 835, Statutes of 2006
AB 3069 (Jerome Horton-D) Soliciting prostitution: impoundment of vehicle
Allows the police to impound a person's car, through a specified procedure, upon arrest with probable cause for soliciting prostitution. Provides that impoundment will be for five days on the second offense within five years and 15 days for each successive offense within five years.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
Other Crimes and Sentencing
SB 96* (Murray-D) Peer-to-peer networks: file sharing software
Provides that any person or entity that sells, advertises, or distributes peer-to-peer file sharing software, as defined, that enables the user to electronically disseminate recordings or audiovisual works over the Internet who fails to incorporate available filtering technology into that software to prevent use of the software to commit an unlawful act with respect to a commercial recording or audiovisual work, or a violation of provisions related to production, possession, distribution, or advertisement of obscene matter depicting a minor under 18 years of age, or tampering with, interference with, damage to, or unauthorized access to computer data or systems, is punishable by a fine not exceeding $2,500, imprisonment in a county jail for a period not to exceed one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment. Provides that these provisions will not apply to computer operating system software, Internet browser software, an electronic mail service provider, or an Internet service provider, or to transmissions via a personal network, or local area network.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 222 (Runner-R) Privacy: social security numbers
Imposes misdemeanor penalties where a person or entity violates state law protecting the privacy of social security numbers.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 235 (Denham-R) HIV exposure through unprotected sexual activity
Enacts a new alternate misdemeanor/felony for the act of engaging in unprotected sex, with willful or wanton disregard for the health of the other person, when a person knows he or she is HIV positive and fails to disclose that fact to the other person, as specified.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 307 (Simitian-D) Dextromethorphan: sale to minors
Makes it an infraction for any person in an over-the-counter sale to, without prescription, willfully and knowingly deliver to a person under 18 years of age a nonprescription drug containing dextromethorphan.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 391 (Poochigian-R) Gang crime: enhancements
Provides that a defendant convicted of a gang-related murder or other life-term offense shall receive a sentence enhancement of 10 years, as is imposed in every other gang-related violent felony conviction, unless imposition of the term of 15-years-to-life for a gang-related life term crime will result in greater punishment.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 434 (Simitian-D) False reporting
Makes it a felony to plant or conceal evidence or make a false statement with the intent that an innocent person be arrested and incarcerated for a serious or violent crime. This felony will be punishable by three, five or nine years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 478 (Alquist-D) Obscene matter
Makes matter depicting a person under 14 years of age engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, a misdemeanor or a felony. Provides, upon a second or subsequent violation of certain offenses in the chapter on obscene material, under certain circumstances, make the offense a felony, or imposes additional fines and days in a county jail.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 751 (Morrow-R) Human trafficking
Provides for sentence enhancements of nine, 12 and 15 years in existing crime sin which the defendant was engaged in human trafficking involving victims of any age, minors and minors under the age of 14, respectively.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 934 (Vincent-D) Dogs and cats: spay or neuter agreement: penalties
Provides that the entity selling or giving away un unspayed or unneutered dog or cat shall require the adopter or purchaser to execute a written agreement acknowledging that the dog or cat is not spayed or neutered and agreeing that the adoptor or purchaser shall be responsible for ensuring that the dog or cat will be spayed or neutered, as specified. Subjects a purchaser or adopter who violates the agreement to spay or neuter to specified civil fines and penalties.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
SB 936 (Maldonado-R) Homicide
Includes, within the definition of "homicide", a homicide when committed to prevent an act of radiological sabotage or theft of special nuclear material at a nuclear power plant or nuclear spent fuel storage facility licensed by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 971 (Poochigian-R) Assault: school employees
Provides that the offense of assaulting a school employee is punishable as a felony.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1119 (Migden-D) Reprieves, pardons and commutations of sentences
Requires the Board of Parole Hearings to conduct clemency hearings whenever an inmate sentenced to death submits a written request for a hearing and requires the Supreme Court to appoint counsel to represent indigent defendants consistent with the competency standards used by the Judicial Council and the Supreme Court for appointed counsel representing death penalty defendants in direct appeals and habeas corpus proceedings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1184 (Cedillo-D) Attempted murder: nonsworn uniformed employees
Makes the penalty of attempted murder of a custody assistant, or similar non-sworn uniformed sheriff's employee, the same as the penalty for attempted murder of a custodial officer and to create the category of custody assistant.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2006
SB 1222 (Ackerman-R) Street gang laws: firearm offenses
Adds possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, carrying a concealed firearm and carrying a loaded firearm to the list of "predicate" offenses under the Street Terrorism Enforcement and Prevention Act -- crimes that demonstrate the primary activities of a gang and the "pattern of criminal gang activity."
Chapter 596, Statutes of 2006
SB 1238 (Battin-R) Child pornography
Recasts the laws concerning child pornography, including requiring felony convictions for any child pornography offense, imposing fines of $25,000, $150,000 and $1 million, and prohibiting or limiting probation.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1262 (Denham-R) Vehicle theft: denial of probation
Eliminates the ability of a court to grant probation to any person convicted of vehicle theft, taking a vehicle without the owner's permission, or obtaining, concealing or selling a stolen vehicle, who has a prior felony conviction of any of these offenses.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1297 (Battin-R) Soliciting minors to engage in sexual activity
Provides that it is a felony, punishable by imprisonment of three, six, or eight years, to solicit or induce, or attempt to solicit or induce, a minor to engage in prostitution, lewd acts, pandering, a specified sex crime or any "sexual activity." Allows prosecution and conviction for this crime where the defendant believed he was soliciting or inducing a minor to engage in sexual activity. Allows prosecution and conviction for this crime where the defendant should have known he or she was inducing or soliciting a minor.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1308* (Battin-R) Bribery
Extends the provisions prohibiting the offering of bribes to or the accepting of bribes by a member of the Legislature to any member of the legislative body of a city, county, city and county, school district or any other special district.
Chapter 435, Statutes of 2006
SB 1348 (Battin-R) Voter registration: paid circulators
Makes it a misdemeanor offense, with punishment by a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment up to six months in the county jail, or both, for any person to knowingly misrepresent himself or herself as having been the person who helped register another person to vote on a registration form and imposes a fine not exceeding $10,000, imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or both, for a third or subsequent conviction.
Chapter 377, Statutes of 2006
SB 1349 (Soto-D) Cockfighting
Increases the penalties for the fighting of animals or cocks.
Chapter 430, Statutes of 2006
SB 1402 (Kuehl-D) Spousal rape
Eliminates the reporting requirement in the spousal rape statute.
Chapter 45, Statutes of 2006
SB 1410 (Dutton-R) Trespass: denial of access
Prohibits the willful and knowing obstruction of access to property where the entering party possesses a legal right to maintain the property.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1454 (Torlakson-D) Hazing: Matt's Law
Repeals, in the memory of Matthew William Carrington, who died on February 1, 2005, as a result of hazing, the Education Code hazing provisions and, instead, codifies within the Penal Code a new definition of hazing and prescribes misdemeanor and felony penalties, as specified. Allows a person to bring a civil action for injury or damage against individuals who participate in, or organizations who authorize, the hazing.
Chapter 601, Statutes of 2006
SB 1455 (Hollingsworth-R) Impersonating a peace officer
Provides for a five-year enhancement of sentence where the perpetrator of a kidnapping or a specified sex offense impersonated a peace officer in committing the offense.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1485 (Hollingsworth-R) Protected animals
Removes the current prohibition on importing alligators and crocodiles into California for commercial purposes, until January 1, 2010.
Chapter 660, Statutes of 2006
SB 1503 (Poochigian-R) Vehicle theft
Increases the penalty to two, three, or four years for vehicle theft or taking with a prior misdemeanor vehicle theft or taking conviction and limits grants of probation for third offense vehicle theft.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1578 (Lowenthal-D) Tethering prohibition
Establishes the tethering of a dog to a stationary object, except as specified, as an infraction or misdemeanor, depending on the offense, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 per dog and/or up to six months in a county jail.
Chapter 489, Statutes of 2006
SB 1602 (Battin-R) Scalping tickets
Expands the misdemeanor crime of ticket scalping to include a person who knowingly purchases tickets to an event from an original ticket seller in a quantity that exceeds the stated maximum ticket purchase limit with the intent to resell them for commercial purposes.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1642 (Romero-D) Three Strikes Law
Targets the life-term provisions of the Three Strikes Law to cover persons convicted of serious or violent offenses (all violent felonies are serious), persons convicted of non-serious offenses in the current case who have specified "super-strike" prior convictions, and persons convicted in the current case of specified drug trafficking crimes and sex crimes. Allows prison inmates who would not have received a life term under this bill to file a petition for re-sentencing. Provides discretion for courts to grant or deny a petition for re-sentencing by an eligible inmate.
(Died on Senate Third Reading File)
SB 1664 (Poochigian-R) Sentencing: repeat illegal aliens
Provides that when a person is convicted of a felony he or she shall receive a 10-year enhancement for each felony prior for which he or she had been deported.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1749 (Migden-D) Transit fare evasion
Allows for administrative enforcement of transit-related violations in the City and County of San Francisco and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
Chapter 258, Statutes of 2006
SB 1806 (Figueroa-D) Animals: abuse
Creates penalties for leaving an animal in a vehicle.
Chapter 431, Statutes of 2006
SJR 33 (Simitian-D) Elder Abuse Awareness Stamp
Requests the President and the Congress of the United States to enact legislation that authorizes the United States Postmaster General to establish a special rate of postage for first-class mail, and to issue a special postage stamp, to provide funds for elder abuse prevention and awareness programs.
(Died at Assembly Desk)
AB 44 (Cohn-D) Destruction of wireless communication device
Provides that it is a misdemeanor, punishable by a term of up to one year, for unlawfully destroying, damaging or obstructing the use of a wireless communication device with the intent to prevent the use of the device to summon assistance or notify law enforcement of a crime.
Chapter 695, Statutes of 2006
AB 64 (Cohn-D) Recording crimes
Expands the application of the alternate felony/misdemeanor penalty currently applicable to persons who manufacture, possess for sale, sell, or rent, all as specified, at least 1000 copies of an audio recording by lowering the required number of copies to at least 100 copies of audio recordings.
Chapter 9, Statutes of 2006
AB 167 (Cohn-D) Annoying electronic communications
Eliminates the requirement in current law that, to constitute a misdemeanor, making contact with the intent to annoy by means of electronic communication, when directed to a person at their place of work, must be either in violation of a restraining order or must be directed to a person with a specified relationship to the caller and must involve over 10 contacts within a 24 hour period and to expand the scope of the current law prohibiting repeated annoying communications to include electronic communications wherever they are received.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 246 (Walters-R) Statute of limitations: accessory to a felony
Lengthens the statute of limitations for the crime of being an accessory to a felony -- currently three years -- to be the same as for the underlying felony to which the person is charged with being an accessory or five years, whichever is less.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 418 (Koretz-D) Animal cruelty: ear cropping
Makes it a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of up to $10,000, for any person to perform, procure or arrange an ear cropping procedure on any dog within California, except as performed by a licensed veterinarian solely for a therapeutic purpose. Specifies that nothing in this bill prohibits showing a dog with cropped ears in a competition, owning a dog with cropped ears, or buying or selling a dog with cropped ears.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 425 (Negrete McLeod-D) Organized retail crime
Makes various legislative findings and declarations concerning the impact of organized retail crime.
(Died in Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee)
AB 456 (Torrico-D) Public employees: retirement: fraud
Enacts new criminal fraud provisions in the statutes pertaining to the State Public Employees Retirement Law, the State Teachers Retirement Law, and the County Employees Retirement Law of 1937, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 734 (Dymally-D) Endangered species: crime
Allows the importation into California of products made from certain species of kangaroo.
(Failed passage in Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
AB 806 (La Suer-R) Fines and fees: high technology crimes
Authorizes a court to require a defendant convicted of any crime committed with the aid of a computer, computer network, electronic mail, or the Internet, to pay a new laboratory analysis fee, collected only after other restitution, fines and fees are collected, if an analysis was done in the case, for the reasonable costs incurred for computer forensic analysis.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 878 (Chavez-D) Felonies: profits
Amends California's so-called "Son of Sam" law, which imposed an involuntary trust upon the profits and proceeds gained by a convicted felon, or by others, from selling the story of, or materials relating to, the felon's crime, in order to address concerns raised by the Supreme Court in a decision that held the existing "Son of Sam" statute unconstitutional.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 916 (Canciamilla-D) Elder abuse
Provides for enhanced prison sentences in felony cases of elder or dependent adult financial abuse.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1000 (Sharon Runner-R) Vehicular manslaughter
Increases the penalty for vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated from an alternate felony/misdemeanor punishable either by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, two or four years to a straight felony punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, four, or six years.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1022 (Walters-R) Bad checks: diversion program
Requires persons who participate in a pretrial diversion program established by a district attorney's office to pay the cost of any class or classes required to successfully complete the program.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1023 (Walters-R) Child exploitation
States legislative intent to eliminate misdemeanor or alternative misdemeanor or felony treatment of all child pornography or child exploitation offenses involving a person who is 14 years of age or younger. Provides that any person who commits a violation of these provisions that involves a person who is 14 years of age or younger is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for 16 months, or two or three years, unless a greater felony punishment is specified in that provision, in which case that punishment shall apply.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1160 (Lieber-D) Crime
Enacts the Gwen Araujo Justice for Victims Act. Makes legislative findings about panic strategies, creates an additional jury instruction regarding bias and directs the Office of Emergency Services to develop practice materials for training prosecutors regarding "panic strategies" when funding becomes available.
Chapter 550, Statutes of 2006
AB 1256 (Bermudez-D) Three Strikes Law
Expands the list of serious felonies, thereby increasing the reach and scope of the Three Strikes Law and creating other consequences, as specified.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1257 (Umberg-D) Child pornography crimes
Provides that any person who uses a minor to assist in distribution or exhibition of obscene material, or uses a minor in the distribution to adults of depictions of minors engaged in actual or simulated sexual conduct without commercial consideration, or uses a minor in the distribution to minors of depictions of minors engaged in actual or simulated sexual conduct, is guilty of an alternate felony/misdemeanor. Provides that any person who distributes or exchanges with an adult any material that depicts a minor personally engaging in actual or simulated sexual conduct, as defined, is guilty of an alternate felony/misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1333 (Frommer-D) Grease waste haulers
Prohibits grease haulers from reinserting any new materials into a grease waste trap or discharge same into any water of the state and requires disposal of grease waste at an appropriate location.
Chapter 186, Statutes of 2006
AB 1389 (Oropeza-D) Littering: cigarette butts
Increases the fine for throwing or otherwise discarding cigarette, match or flaming substance upon any highway or sidewalk to not less than $750 nor more than $1,500 for a first offense, not less than $1,000 nor more than $2,000 for a second offense, and not less than $2,000 nor more than $3,000 upon a third or subsequent conviction.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1449 (Bermudez-D) Graffiti abatement
Provides procedures for the removal of graffiti near highways.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1587 (Saldana-D) Farmed Animal Reform Act
Creates a new crime for anyone to kill or attempt to kill any cow, bull, calf, horse, mule, sheep, swine, goat, fallow deer, or poultry by specified methods. Provides new definition for methods of slaughter.
(Died in Assembly Agriculture Committee)
AB 1605 (Wolk-D) Elder and dependent adult abuse
Extends mandated reporting requirements for financial elder or dependent adult abuse to all officers and employees of certain financial institutions.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1789 (Cohn-D) Great bodily injury: paralysis or brain injury
Increases the penalty enhancement, from five to 10 years, for inflicting great bodily injury on any person in the commission or attempted commission of a felony that results in a permanently paralyzed or comatose condition.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1957 (Maze-R) Vandalism
Adds specific provisions relating to vandalism in a park to the general vandalism statute and provides for a mandatory clean up of a park that has been vandalized.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2077 (Strickland-R) Battery: retired peace officers
Provides that battery of a retired peace officer, when the person committing the offense knows or reasonably should have known that the victim is a retired peace officer, is punishable as a misdemeanor or felony.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2088 (Spitzer-R) Statutes of limitations
Extends the current three-year statute of limitations for the crime of being an accessory to murder to ten years.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2110 (Hancock-D) Cruelty to animals: dogs: field coursing
Makes "live field coursing", a competition in which dogs are assessed as to their skill in hunting rabbits and foxes, usually killing the prey, a misdemeanor, punishable by up to six months in county jail and/or a fine of up to $1,000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2159 (Cogdill-R) Bail: residential burglary
Provides that where a defendant is charged with residential burglary, the court must hold a hearing before it sets bail lower than provided in the bail schedules or grants own recognizance release.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2229 (La Suer-R) Use of a firearm
Creates an exception to the law that prohibits a judge from striking the prescribed sentence enhancement for personal use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, allowing the judge to strike the enhancement if the firearm use involved a peace officer in the performance of his or her duties.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2261 (Matthews-D) Human remains: sexual contact
Increases the penalty for sexual contact with, or mutilization or disinterment of, human remains from 16 months, two or three year in state prison, to three, six, or eight years in state prison.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2353 (Bogh-R) Homicide: justifiable
Makes a person using deadly force within his or her residence against another person who unlawfully and forcibly enters the residence immune from civil liability.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2367 (La Suer-R) Criminal penalties
Converts anomalous indeterminate sentencing provisions, for terms other than life, to determinate terms and thus to create consistency in criminal sentencing.
Chapter 347, Statutes of 2006
AB 2368 (La Suer-R) Bail: premium collection
Prohibits, knowingly or intentionally, executing a bail bond without collecting the entire premium for the bail bond.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2389 (Vargas-D) Child pornography
Provides that a person who knowingly commits acts relative to specified child pornography offenses is guilty of a felony.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2534 (Shirley Horton-R) Limitation of actions: DNA evidence
Adds to the list of offenses which extend the statute of limitations by allowing the filing of a criminal complaint within one year of the identification of a suspect conclusively established as a result of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) testing. The offenses added include arson, robbery or bank robbery, kidnapping, attempted murder, any felony in which the defendant inflicts great bodily injury on any person other than an accomplice, and any felony in which the defendant personally uses a firearm.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2586 (Parra-D) Alternative sentencing programs for combat veterans
Allows a sentencing court to place a defendant who suffers from substance abuse post traumatic stress disorder or other psychological disorders as a result of military combat service in a probation and treatment program.
Chapter 788, Statutes of 2006
AB 2599 (Benoit-R) Motor vehicle theft
Increases the penalty for grand theft auto, receiving stolen property, and auto theft by making these offenses punishable as felonies if the person has a prior specified misdemeanor offense conviction.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2612 (Plescia-R) Taking of free newspapers
Defines a new crime that is committed where a person takes more than 25 copies of free newspapers for any of the following purposes: to sell the papers, to recycle the papers for cash or other payment, to harm a competitor, or to prevent others from reading the paper. Provides that the crime is an infraction for a first offense and an alternate infraction/misdemeanor for a subsequent conviction. Clarifies that this new offense is a unique crime, not a form of petty theft. Makes legislative findings as to the societal benefits of free newspapers.
Chapter 228, Statutes of 2006
AB 2702 (Tran-R) Statute of limitations: child pornography
Adds production of child pornography and secret filming of a person under or through their clothing to the list of crimes for which the statute of limitations does not begin to run until the offense has been discovered or reasonably could have been discovered.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2707 (Keene-R) Crime: picketing
Creates a new misdemeanor for picketing within 100 feet of a burial site, mortuary, or church.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2741 (La Malfa-R) Impersonation of a military member
Provides that any person who willfully wears, exhibits, or uses, as specified, the authorized badge, uniform, photographic identification card, or insignia of, or willfully presents himself or herself as a veteran or active duty or reserve member of, the Armed Forces of the United States, the National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia, with the intent of fraudulently impersonating a veteran or active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia, or of fraudulently inducing the belief that he or she is a veteran or active duty or reserve member of the Armed Forces of the United States, the National Guard, the State Military Reserve, or the Naval Militia, for the purpose of personal gain or to facilitate any unlawful activity, is guilty of misdemeanor.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2854 (Dymally-D) Bail bonds: forfeiture
Authorizes a bail or surety to file a motion to toll the 180-day time limit to return a defendant after bail is forfeited during the time the prosecuting attorney is seeking extradition.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2910 (Baca-D) Sentencing: state prison commitments
Provides that, notwithstanding any other provision of law, and regardless of whether the person's term of imprisonment is deemed to have been served, any person sentenced to state prison shall be ordered by the sentencing judge to be transported to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for processing.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2967 (Sharon Runner-R) Underage drinking
Makes it a wobbler to purchase for, furnish, give or give away any alcoholic beverage to a person the provider knew or reasonably should have known to be under the age of 21 years, and the person under the age of 21 consumes the alcohol and thereby proximately causes great bodily injury or death to himself, herself or any other person and the provider should have known of the danger.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 3027 (Levine-D) Animal cruelty: elephants
Requires that, by January 1, 2009, each person who possesses or maintains elephants at a stationary facility must provide outdoor space with a minimum of five acres, provided no more than three elephants inhabit any five acres, with an additional half acre for each additional elephant. Provides that the substrate must not consist entirely of concrete, steel, gravel, sand, or other material detrimental to the health of the elephant.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 3069 (Jerome Horton-D) Soliciting prostitution: impoundment of vehicle
Allows the police to impound a person's car, through a specified procedure, upon arrest with probable cause for soliciting prostitution. Specifies that impoundment will be for five days on the second offense within five years and 15 days of each consecutive offense within five years.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
ACR 56 (Chu-D) Hate Crimes Awareness Month
Designates June 2006 as Hate Crimes Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
ACR 106 (Yee-D) The White Ribbon Campaign
Encourages participation in the White Ribbon Campaign against violence against women.
Resolution Chapter 10, Statutes of 2006
ACR 109 (Montanez-D) Teen dating violence
Proclaims the week of February 6 through 10 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Week.
Resolution Chapter 11, Statutes of 2006
Procedural
SB 129 (Margett-R) Biological evidence: storage
Provides that the biological material that must be stored from a criminal case for the length of the person's incarceration shall be limited to evidence in any felony case and misdemeanor sex offense cases.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 171 (Alquist-D) Interrogation: recording
Requires the electronic recording of all custodial interrogations relating to homicides and all violent felony offenses.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 450 (Poochigian-R) Appeals: fugitive defendants
Provides that no appeal may be taken by a fugitive defendant, or a defendant who has otherwise removed himself or herself from the jurisdiction of the appellate court. Provides that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no appeal may be reinstated, if the reinstatement is necessary because the defendant was not within the jurisdiction of the appellate court because the defendant was a fugitive or otherwise removed himself or herself from the jurisdiction of the appellate court during the pendency of the appeal.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1257 (Morrow-R) Criminal procedure: appeals: capital cases
Expedites the appellate process for capital cases by specifying timeframes for appointment of counsel, certification of the record and filing of the opening brief and by requiring any person appointed to do a non-capital appeal to also be available to take a capital appeal.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1295 (Soto-D) Criminal procedure
Allows the continuance of a hearing on a traffic infraction if the citing officer is unable to appear.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1321 (Cedillo-D) Criminal procedure: release from custody in jail
Requires the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to identify individuals who are repeatedly admitted to jail and who are housed in homeless shelter programs. Requires the department, with the consent of the inmate, to provide information about those inmates to a county stabilization center or social service organization that is providing discharge planning services, and requires the department to release those inmates identified as homeless or at-risk homeless to a county stabilization center or social service organization.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1346 (Ortiz-D) Disposition reports of criminal cases
Requires the criminal disposition reports electronically submitted to the Department of Justice by a court using the final version of the criminal component of the Administrative Office of the Courts' California Court Case Management System shall contain the subject's right and left thumbprints.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1386 (Morrow-R) Civil procedure: trial waivers
Provides that a written agreement to waive the right to a jury trial with respect to any existing civil case or a civil case arising after the agreement is entered, is valid, enforceable, and irrevocable, except upon those grounds as exist for the revocation of any contract.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1391 (Margett-R) Postconviction discovery
Specifies that the discovery requirement pertains to materials that were not previously discovered or were lost or destroyed by defendant's trial counsel since the time of trial.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1714 (Margett-R) Interception of communications
Requires a judge to accept a facsimile copy of the signature of the Attorney General, District Attorney, or specified designee in support of an application for an order authorizing a wiretap. Consistent with current law, the original signed application will have to be filed and sealed by the court.
Chapter 146, Statutes of 2006
AB 283 (Koretz-D) Factual innocence
Repeals and establishes a new procedure for determining factual innocence and sealing and destroying arrest and other criminal records, as specified. Establishes new procedures for persons who are erroneously convicted to make claims for specified compensation against the state.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 828 (Cohn-D) Criminal proceedings: reports
Allows the judge to read or consider a police report when issuing a protective order.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 851 (Koretz-D) Wrongly convicted persons
Expedites procedures regarding findings of factual innocence and provides expedited and increased fiscal redress and assistance for exonerated persons.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1133 (Harman-R) Evidentiary privileges
Limits the waiver of certain evidentiary privileges based on the unintentional disclosure of confidential information.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1740 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil procedure: forum
Provides that forum selection clauses in consumer contracts are unenforceable. Provides that an agreement entered into or renewed after January 1, 2006, establishing a forum outside of this state for the hearing or determination of a matter arising from an offer or provision of goods, services, property, or extensions of credit primarily for personal, family, or household purposes to a California consumer is contrary to public policy and is void and unenforceable.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1787 (Cohn-D) Emergency protective orders: validity
Clarifies that an emergency protective order is valid only if issued by a judicial officer after making required findings and pursuant to a request by a law enforcement officer.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2006
AB 1865 (Bogh-R) Driving under the influence: evidence
Provides that in a criminal case in which a defendant is accused of driving under the influence with injury, as defined, and if it is alleged that the defendant inflicted great bodily injury on any person other than the defendant, evidence of the defendant's prior DUI acts with injury may be admitted to prove the defendant's conduct, subject to an evidentiary hearing.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1996 (Bogh-R) Testimony: sexual offenses: witnesses
Extends existing procedures that apply when the sexual history of a testifying witness is offered to attack the credibility of the witness, to witnesses testifying about prior sexual offenses of a defendant.
Chapter 225, Statutes of 2006
AB 2044 (Cogdill-R) Student biological specimen testing
Allows a court, where probable cause exists to believe that a transfer of bodily fluids has occurred between a student and teacher, to require that student be tested for HIV/AIDS.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2093 (Karnette-D) Evidence: hearsay exception
Expands the existing "state of mind" exception to the inadmissibility of hearsay to include non-testimonial statements by a decedent declarant expressing fear of the defendant in homicide proceedings where such statements are found to be trustworthy and not substantially more prejudicial than probative.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2129 (Spitzer-R) Restraining orders: firearm relinquishment
Requires that persons who are subject to a protective order involving harassment, witness or victim intimidation and elder or dependent adult abuse be required to relinquish any firearms in their possession or control within 24 hours of being served with the protective order, as specified.
Chapter 474, Statutes of 2006
AB 2139 (Garcia-R) Emergency protective orders
Requires law enforcement officers who respond to an intimate violence situation to tell the victim that they may ask the officer to request an emergency protective order, as specified.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2006
AB 2174 (Villines-R) Criminal procedure: defendant's appearance
Allows the court to order the defendant in a misdemeanor driving under the influence case to appear at the arraignment, the time of plea or sentencing.
Chapter 744, Statutes of 2006
AB 2272 (Parra-D) Writ of habeas corpus: notice to prosecuting agency
Specifies transfer, order and notice procedures that shall be complied with when an application for a writ challenges a denial of, or suitability for parole or when a petition is filed in a superior court other than the court in which the judgment was rendered.
Chapter 274, Statutes of 2006
AB 2302 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil actions and proceedings: interpreters
Provides, commencing July 1, 2007, except as specified, that in any civil action or proceeding, including, but not limited to, any family court proceeding, any proceeding to determine the mental competency of a person, or any court-ordered or court-provided alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, in which a party does not proficiently speak or understand the English language, and that party is present, an interpreter, as provided, must be present to interpret the proceeding in a language the party understands, and to assist communication between the part and his/her attorney.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2356 (Negrete McLeod-D) Criminal procedure: recording communications
Adds welfare fraud investigators to the provision allowing law enforcement to overhear or record communications.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2461 (Emmerson-R) Criminal procedure: motions: sealing records
Gives law enforcement notice of a request to have arrest records destroyed and to allow law enforcement to present evidence on a hearing regarding destruction of records.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2814 (Koretz-D) Criminal procedure: continuances
Allows the court to continue an elder or dependent adult abuse trial or hearing date for up to ten court days where the prosecutor assigned has another trial or hearing in progress.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2858 (Leno-D) Trials: mental competence: defendant
Provides for notice to the defense attorney, sheriff and district attorney if a defendant found mentally incompetent to stand trial on a violent felony is placed on outpatient status and provides for notice to those same people where there is the initiation of the conservatorship and provides that the court shall not appoint a conservator if it will not result in adequate protection of the public.
Chapter 799, Statutes of 2006
AB 2952 (Niello-R) Criminal procedure
Amends Penal Code Section 871.5 to allow prosecutors to appeal from an order by a magistrate dismissing all or part of the prosecution's case regardless of the statutory grounds for the magistrate's order.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 3017 (Mullin-D) Changes of venue: reimbursement
Clarifies what is meant by county costs for the purposes of reimbursing the costs involved in a change of venue.
Chapter 287, Statutes of 2006
Juries
SB 252 (Ackerman-R) Jurors: payment
Makes it a misdemeanor for any party to give, or any juror to receive, a payment of money for anything of value following the verdict in a civil or criminal case.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1281 (Romero-D) Public contracts: jury service pay
Prohibits a state agency from entering into a contract for the acquisition of goods or services with a contractor, as defined, who does not have and adhere to a written policy annually providing his or her full-time employees, as defined, with not less than five days of regular pay for actual jury service.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1386 (Morrow-R) Civil procedure: trial waivers
Provides that a written agreement to waive the right to a jury trial with respect to any existing civil case or a civil case arising after the agreement is entered, is valid, enforceable, and irrevocable, except upon those grounds as exist for the revocation of any contract.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1626 (Nava-D) Juries: jury tampering and jury instruction
Extends the time limitation prohibiting when a discharged juror may be compensated for information about the trial. Provides that a person is guilty of jury tampering when prior to six months of discharge of the jury in a criminal proceeding confers, or offers to confer, any payment upon a juror in consideration for the juror to supply information in relation to an action or proceeding, as specified. Requires that a trial court judge, after swearing in a jury and providing admonitions, shall state that jurors may not accept considerations for any information about the trial to members of the media for a period of six months after the juror is discharged from duty. States that criminal penalties shall not apply if the terms under which a juror is compensated if that otherwise lawful compensation is from an attorney for educational purposes.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1993 (Nakanishi-R) Jurors: exemptions
Provides that until January 1, 2010, an eligible person who holds an active license as a registered nurse and works at least 20 hours per week in direct patient care services may be excused from jury service.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2079 (Spitzer-R) Jurors: payment
Creates a misdemeanor for parties to a proceeding or jurors in a proceeding that did not end in a verdict to offer or accept compensation while the case is still pending in superior court.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Juvenile Justice
SB 346 (Battin-R) Identify theft: use of a child's identification by a parent
Provides that a parent can be guilty of identity theft for unlawfully using the identifying information of his or her child.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 520 (Ashburn-R) Juvenile crime
Excludes minors alleged to have committed specified sex offenses from eligibility for deferred entry of judgment, as enacted by Proposition 21 in 2000.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 609 (Romero-D) Juvenile justice reform
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to (1) retain, within DJJ headquarters, staff responsible for developing DJJ curricula and training materials consistent with DJJ policies and standards, and requires DJJ to have its own trainers, whose specialty is training staff working in a juvenile corrections system dedicated to rehabilitation, (2) develop a plan for ensuring DJJ wards spend the majority of their waking hours in structured activities outside of their cells or rooms, except when individualized behavior treatment plans dictate otherwise, and in this case, for no more than four consecutive hours. DJJ shall provide the Legislature with copies of the plan by April 1, 2007, and (3) eliminate the practice of extended confinement in cells or rooms, except in cases of emergency, in which cases the DJJ shall provide the Legislature, by July 1, 2007, with copies of the policies designed to eliminate the practice of extended confinement.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 678 (Ducheny-D) Indian children
Revises and recasts the portions of the Family, Probate, and Welfare and Institutions Codes that address Indian child custody proceedings by codifying into state law various provisions of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Guidelines for State Courts, and state Rules of Court.
Chapter 838, Statutes of 2006
SB 795 (Romero-D) Division of Juvenile Justice
Requires, by July 1, 2007, that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation's Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) reach an agreement with one or more counties to provide custodial/program services for technical parole violators (non-violent parolees who commit a violation that does not constitute, or will not be prosecuted as, a new criminal offense) as an alternative to recommitment to a DJJ institution.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1034 (Hollingsworth-R) Community care facilities: wards of the juvenile court
Requires at least two-thirds of residents housed by a state-funded or state-reimbursed facility that serves wards of the juvenile court to be wards of the court of the county in which the facility is located. Authorizes up to one-third of a facility's residents to be wards of a court of a county other than the county in which the facility is located.
(Died in Senate Human Services Committee)
SB 1373 (Romero-D) Division of Juvenile Justice
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to have, as a performance objective, the reduction of the average length of stay and a reduction of net time added to all ward parole consideration dates for disciplinary reasons. Requires the DJJ to make specified reports to the Legislature with regard to that objective.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1469 (Cedillo-D) Medi-Cal: eligibility: juvenile offenders
Requires, beginning January 1, 2008, county juvenile detention facilities to notify county welfare departments about the release of a ward so that eligibility for Medi-Cal can be determined.
Chapter 657, Statutes of 2006
SB 1589 (Romero-D) Division of Juvenile Justice: specialized program
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to explore options for specialized programming for high risk or high needs wards outside of DJJ, as specified. Authorizes DJJ to consider certain changes pertaining to its composition.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1595 (Machado-D) Juvenile facilities
Provides guidelines to the court relative to a person who is transferred to the jurisdiction of that facility pursuant to and consistent with all the requirements set forth in the provision governing transfers.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1616 (Kuehl-D) Juveniles: incarceration: Medi-Cal: SSI: SSDI
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to work with the Social Security Administration and the Department of Health Services to ensure that disabled wards are enrolled in Medi-Cal and that their disability benefits are available to them when they are released from incarceration at a state institution.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1626 (Ashburn-R) Juvenile justice: deferred entry of judgment
Clarifies the courts authority to grant deferred entry of judgment for juveniles.
Chapter 675, Statutes of 2006
SB 1667 (Kuehl-D) Dependent children
Facilities foster parent involvement in dependency review hearings by requiring social workers to serve a copy of the Judicial Council Caregiver Information Form and instructions on how to file the form, along with a summary of recommendations regarding the foster child. Authorizes foster parents and other individuals to attend and provide written evidence in post permanency planning hearings.
Double-jointed to AB 2774 (Assembly Human Services Committee).
Chapter 389, Statutes of 2006
SB 1742 (Machado-D) Juvenile justice
Requires the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) to only accept a person committed to it if DJJ has adequate staff and programs to provide care. Deletes provisions of law that require DJJ to accept a person who is borderline psychiatric, borderline mentally deficient, a specified sexual deviate, or suffering from a behavior disorder.
Chapter 257, Statutes of 2006
SB 1777 (Alarcon-D) Juvenile court schools
Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a process to accept and review applications from county offices of education and school districts requesting funding for foster children attending juvenile court schools. Sunsets these provisions on January 1, 2012.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 314 (Parra-D) Department of the Youth Authority
Requires the Department of the Youth Authority to conduct a comprehensive study of all newly committed wards so as to appropriately handle the physical, mental, and educational needs of the ward as well as any problems with substance abuse.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 470 (Yee-D) Medi-Cal: juveniles: incarceration
Requires the Department of Health Services, in the case of a minor who has been incarcerated, to suspend the minor's Medi-Cal benefits but not terminate the minor's Medi-Cal eligibility.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 763 (Tran-R) Juvenile justice coordinating councils
Clarifies a conflict of interest provision relating to county juvenile justice coordinating councils.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 863 (Bass-D) Child Welfare Council
Establishes the Child Welfare Council, which advises on the management of the multiple agencies that provide services to children and youth in contact with courts, and the child welfare and foster care systems.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1198 (Mullin-D) Juvenile court records: County of San Mateo
Authorizes the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors to establish, by resolution, a demonstration project permitting the exchange of information concerning a juvenile, as specified. Provides that the project include an evaluation of the impact of the demonstration project, and not exceed three years.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1267 (Leslie-R) Corrections Standards Authority
Requires the Corrections Standard Authority, rather than the California Council on Criminal Justice, to act as the supervisory board of the state planning agency pursuant to the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act, and review the state plan for delinquency prevention, as specified.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1501 (Yee-D) Sexually exploited minors
Establishes a pilot program authorizing the Counties of Alameda and Contra Costa and the City and County of San Francisco to develop and establish integrated protocols to address cross-jurisdictional cases involving sexually exploited minors.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1638 (Nava-D) Adoption of dependent children
Expedites adoptions of foster children in certain circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Juvenile Reentry Program
General Government Trailer Bill to the 2006 budget which, among other provisions, establishes the Justice Community Reentry Challenge Grant Program to be administered by the Division of Juvenile Justice, in consultation with the Corrections Standards Authority.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1945 (Coto-D) Juvenile detention facilities: release: health insurance
Requires that, upon releasing a minor from a juvenile detention facility, as specified, the releasing authority shall determine if the minor will have health insurance after release and, if not, determine whether the minor is eligible for need-based health insurance programs. Requires that the releasing authority ensure than an eligible minor is enrolled in an appropriate need-based health insurance program upon release.
(Died in Assembly Health Committee)
AB 2004 (Yee-D) Juveniles: Medi-Cal
Requires the Department of Health Services, in the case of a minor who has been incarcerated, to suspend the minor's Medi-Cal benefits but not terminate the minor's Medi-Cal eligibility.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2006 (La Malfa-R) Dependent children: arrest of parent or guardian
Authorizes a peace officer, without a warrant, to take into temporary custody any minor in the immediate care and custody of a parent or guardian who is arrested under specified circumstances, including, if the officer has reasonable cause for believing the minor is in immediate danger of physical or sexual abuse, or the physical environment or the fact that the minor will be left unattended poses an immediate threat to the minor's health or safety.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2031 (Cohn-D) Dependent children
Requires the Department of Social Services to work with stakeholders to draft best practices guidelines for using advanced technology to assist counties in identifying all relatives and non-relative extended family members for foster children.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2130 (DeVore-R) Placement of dependent children
Requires a court to consider the religious, cultural, moral and ethnic values of the child or of his or her birth parents prior to granting a petition of adoption for that child.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2480 (Evans-D) Dependent children: counsel
Provides for appellate counsel for children in dependency proceedings. Presumes that a child over the age of 12 is of sufficient maturity to consent to invoke the psychotherapist-client privilege, physician-patient privilege, and clergy-penitent privilege in dependency proceedings.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2006
AB 2798 (Goldberg-D) Juveniles: pilot project
Creates a three-year pilot project in Los Angeles, Alameda and Sacramento Counties to provide comprehensive integrated services to wards from 15 to 18 years of age in juvenile ranches, camps, and forestry camps.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2938 (Sharon Runner-R) Juvenile case files
Expands what records can be released to the public in a case of child abuse or negligence that has resulted in a child fatality or near fatality.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Corrections
SB 185 (Battin-R) Inmate labor assignments
Prohibits any inmate from being allowed to participate in any activity that provides the inmate with access to personal information of private individuals.
(Died on Senate Unfinished Business File)
SB 366 (Kuehl-D) Department of Corrections: families: female offenders
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to adopt and implement, by January 1, 2011, a correctional strategy for female inmates.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 480 (Denham-R) Inmate labor: Central Coast Veterans Cemetery
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to make available inmate work crews from Salinas Valley State Prison to perform ongoing maintenance at the Central Coast Veterans Cemetery.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 617 (Speier-D) Women prisoners
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house pregnant female prison inmates separately from other female inmates and be given appropriate health care and nutrition. Requires pregnant female inmates be afforded a program specifically for mothers with infants for the first six months of the child's life. Establishes the six-member Gender Specific Standards for Women in Prison Task Force.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 620 (Speier-D) Prisons: random drug testing
Requires every person entering the property of the Department of Corrections, the Department of the Youth Authority, or a private vendor housing inmates and/or wards to be subject to random drug detection and searches for weapons and contraband.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 622 (Speier-D) Correctional facilities: educational programs
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement a continuous education program that includes both an intake assessment as well as "appropriate education services" for inmates at each state and privately operated facility within 180 days of the effective date of the bill. Further requires the Youth and Adult Correctional Agency to report annually its findings, outcomes and statistics pertaining to the program to the Legislature.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 814 (Romero-D) Prisons: segregation
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to eliminate segregation for male and female inmates based solely on race while ensuring the security of the inmates, the correctional facilities, and the public. Requires the department to educate staff regarding housing procedures, to develop a violence tracking system for reception centers and the general inmate population designed to record, track, and analyze violent incidents, and to develop a draft organizational plan addressing staff responsibilities and timeframes for goals and implementation of the elements described above, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 896* (Runner-R) Inmates: health care services
Allows other public agencies that contract for emergency health services to contract with providers for emergency health care services for care to local law enforcement patients. Provides that "other public agencies," as well as local sheriffs and police chiefs, are authorized to contract with hospitals for emergency health care for "local law enforcement patients."
Chapter 303, Statutes of 2006
SB 901* (Denham-R) Prisons
Establishes requirements for the decommissioning and redevelopment of San Quentin Prison to be completed by December 31, 2010.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 946 (Florez-D) Community correctional facilities
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to renew contracts with community correctional facilities unless a breach of contract exists or the cost of housing inmates exceeds the cost in DCR facilities. Requires a new annual reimbursement rate be established that takes into account specified new contract requirements, uses 1998 as a base year for contract rate adjustments and requires adjustments from that year.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1074 (Hollingsworth-R) High-risk sex offenders
Requires that every "high-risk sex offender" shall be monitored by a global positioning system device for the term of his or her parole and for the rest of his or her life while in California. Requires that the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (which supervises parolees) maintain a database that records the parolee's whereabouts and, upon the request of local law enforcement, provide that information for the purpose of comparing the geographic correlation of the parolee's location to sexual offense reports made to local law enforcement agencies.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1134* (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Appropriation for Court Order
Complies with the July 28, 2006 court order for Coleman v. Schwarzenegger. Appropriates $34.6 million from the General Fund (GF) to establish 520.26 permanent and 21.2 limited-term positions within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to implement the Revised Program Guide for the Mental Health Services Delivery System. Appropriates $750,000 from the GF to conduct a workload study for the Mental Health Services Deliver System. Requires DCR to submit to the Legislature a report detailing how the funds were spent, number of positions filled and the status of workload study. Requires that any unspent or unencumbered portion of this appropriation will revert to the GF.
Chapter 511, Statutes of 2006
SB 1154 (Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee) Budget deficiencies: Corrections
Appropriates $23.218 million for court-mandated increases in prison doctors' salaries due to Plata v. Schwarzenegger. Appropriates $143.952 million to cover a shortfall in various budget appropriations driven by costs associated with contract medical registry and pharmaceutical, and medical guarding and transportation.
Chapter 40, Statutes of 2006
SB 1319 (Cedillo-D) Homeless persons: release from hospitals and jails
Prohibits medical care providers and law enforcement agencies from transporting those in need of homeless support services without first confirming there is adequate space for the person at the shelter and authorizes a civil penalty of $10,000 for each violation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1320 (Cedillo-D) Probation: Los Angeles County
Requires a portion of the monies appropriated in existing law from the General Fund to the Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs to be used for the creation of a pilot program to be administered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court relating to the probation of nonviolent felony offenders with a history of substance abuse or mental illness.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1321 (Cedillo-D) Release from custody
Requires the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department to identify individuals who are repeatedly admitted to jail and who are housed in homeless shelter programs. Requires the department, with the consent of the inmate, to provide information about those inmates to a county stabilization center or social service organization that is providing discharge planning services, and requires the department to release those inmates identified as homeless or at-risk homeless to a county stabilization center or social service organization.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1372 (Maldonado-R) Mentally disordered offenders: reimbursement of county costs
Provides that a city, county, or superior court shall be entitled to reimbursement for reasonable and necessary costs connected with state prisons or prisoners in connection with any crime committed at a state hospital for the care, treatment, and education of the mentally disordered, as specified, whether by a prisoner, employee, or other person.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1382 (Morrow-R) Conditions of parole
Provides that, upon parole for a specified sex crime with a victim under 13 years of age, a defendant shall, upon parole, undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment or its chemical equivalent, in addition to any other punishment prescribed for that offense or any other provision of law.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1420 (Runner-R) Probation: officers: funding
Appropriates an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the Corrections Standards Authority to develop and administer competitive grants to four counties for adult probation services targeted to sex offenders, domestic and family violence offenders, child threat offenders and stalkers.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1444 (Escutia-D) Prisoners: foreign nationals
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to deliver a foreign national to the United States Immigration and Nationalization Service if his or her country or nationality is a party to the Council of Europe Convention on the Transfer of Sentenced Persons or the Inter-American Convention on Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad and the foreign national is subject to transfer under the applicable convention. Excludes from the required delivery provisions inmates imprisoned for murder and inmates who entered the United States prior to his or her 13th birthday.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1453 (Speier-D) Paroles: aftercare drug programs
Requires nonserious, nonviolent, non-sex offender prison inmates who have completed imprison drug treatment programs to, whenever possible upon release from prison, be placed in a 150-day residential aftercare drug treatment program. Provides that if the inmate successfully completes the 150-day program, the bill requires him/her to be discharged from parole.
Chapter 875, Statutes of 2006
SB 1460* (Cox-R) Community colleges: inmate education programs
Authorizes a California Community College that generates units of full time equivalent student (FTES) in classes for inmates to waive any open course provisions in statute or in regulation and to count credit attendance hours for state apportionment purposes. Reduces the credit rate by the allowance for maintenance and operations. Expands the existing authority of a community college to receive FTES for inmate education programs to include state correctional facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1484 (Hollingsworth-R) Sex offenders: parolee placement
Expands the existing law which prohibits sex offenders on parole from residing in any single family dwelling with any other registered sex offender to include residential facilities which serve six or fewer persons.
(Failed passage in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1521 (Romero-D) Prisons: media access
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to allow news media representatives to interview prisoners on both a pre-arranged and randomly-encountered basis. Grants the institution head the authority to deny or restrict an interview for the purpose of protecting the safety and security of the institution or a member of the public. Requires the DCR to allow news media representatives to utilize cameras and other electronic recording devices during interviews subject to specified restrictions.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1536* (Cox-R) Surplus state property: City of Folsom
Requires the Director of the Department of General Services to sell, lease, convey, or exchange at fair market value to the City of Folsom specified property located at Folsom State Prison and Folsom Lake State Park upon terms and conditions the director deems are in the best interest of the state. Requires that in no event may the property bring anything less than fair market value.
Chapter 255, Statutes of 2006
SB 1547 (Romero-D) Inmate population
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish programs that will parole geriatric and medically incapacitated inmates who no longer pose a threat to public safety, as specified, develop a program that provides sentence reduction incentives for inmates who complete education, vocation, and drug treatment programs, and develop numerous strategies to reduce recidivism and to discharge rehabilitated persons from parole, as specified.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1562 (Maldonado-R) Inmates: state hospitals: reimbursement of costs
Provides that the state shall reimburse any county for costs associated with mentally disordered persons held in state hospitals and that the state shall reimburse counties for any trial costs for state prison inmates who are being treated in a state hospital.
Chapter 812, Statutes of 2006
SB 1635 (Poochigian-R) Inmates: work credits
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to evaluate all inmates for their educational and vocational capacity levels and for their needs for rehabilitation and ability to lead a constructive life.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1722 (Cox-R) Community correctional facilities
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish annually a new reimbursement rate for each county correctional facility based on a specified formula. Requires DCR to negotiate a reimbursement rate for costs incurred as a result of additional departmental mandates.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1734 (Cox-R) Prison Industry Authority: dairy products
Requires the Prison Industry Authority to sell its dairy products solely to state-owned facilities.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1830 (Margett-R) Inmate medical records
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to make available to local law enforcement inmate medical records, upon request, when investigating or prosecuting a felony committed by or against a person under the jurisdiction of DCR or other law enforcement agency.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
SB 1831 (Margett-R) Inmates: loss of work credits
Gives to the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) the authority to establish, within the range of 0-180 days, the number of days of credit that DCR may take away from an inmate for any misconduct defined by regulation as a serious rule violation that the Secretary determines to be a threat to the security and management of a prison, if that misconduct does not amount to a crime.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SR 32 (Cox-R) Probation, Parole and Community Supervision Week
Designates the week of July 16 through 22, as Probation, Parole and Community Supervision Week.
Adopted by the Senate
SB 8XX (Bowen-D) Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
Establishes an advisory committee to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to assist in the development and implementation of enterprise-wide integrated information technology systems for the department, as specified.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 9XX (Speier-D) Corrections: community facility beds: female inmates
Authorizes the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to enter into contracts for up to 4,500 beds for certain nonviolent female inmates in community facilities, as specified. Requires the community facilities to provide wrap-around services to the female inmates. Requires the department to report to the Legislature, as specified, regarding the progress and effectiveness of housing female inmates in the community facilities.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 10XX* (Machado-D) Prisons: additional capacity: financing
Provides $606.4 million in lease-revenue bond funding for the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to construct 5,340 beds at existing prisons. Provides authority for the limited use of design-build for the design and construction of the 5,340 beds. Requires DCR, prior to any request for funding beyond what is in this bill, to report to the Legislature on various information, as specified. Authorizes DCR to plan and design for the establishment of reentry program facilities, as specified. Requires all future DCR projects to be reported to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee for review and approval. Appropriates $311.7 million General Fund for planning of new healthcare facilities, various in-fill infrastructure projects, planning for a new southern California correctional officer training facility, support costs for the DCR, and costs associated with the voluntary transfer of inmates to out-of-state facilities.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 11XX* (Machado-D) Parolees: reentry
Creates the Adult Offender Reentry Accountability Act of 2006 which creates a grant program to be administered by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR). Specifies that the grants will be awarded to counties by DCR, as specified, in order to help fund local programs designed to improve parolee recidivism rates. Appropriates money from the General Fund to fund the grants awarded by DCR.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
SB 12XX (Machado-D) Voluntary transfer of inmates to out-of-state facilities
Expands existing law authorizing the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contract with the federal government for the confinement of California state inmates to include officials or agencies of other states or political subdivisions, there of.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 161 (Vargas-D) Prisoners: clergy
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to employ one clergy member for each 500 inmates and requires DCR to employ a variety of clergy from the Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Native American, and Protestant faiths, plus at least one general chaplain to minister to inmates of underrepresented faiths.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 183* (Cogdill-R) Conservation camps: Madera County
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to house at the Central California Women's Facility or the Valley State Prison for Women (both near Chowchilla in the Central Valley) up to 120 inmates trained to fight fires and perform public conservation projects.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
An identical bill was AB 2035 (Cogdill-R) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 427 (La Malfa-R) Workers' compensation: local inmates
Limits local inmate eligibility for temporary disability benefits.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
AB 458 (Jerome Horton-D) Probation: criminal street gang activity: City of Inglewood
Provides that, for any person sentenced to probation in Los Angeles County for a violation of provisions related to criminal street gang activity, the court shall impose, as a condition of probation, that the person shall not enter a designated area of the City of Inglewood for any unlawful purpose.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 505 (Leno-D) Prisoners
Requires that specified parolees be discharged from parole if they have been continuously on parole for one year since release from confinement.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 543 (Houston-R) Contra Costa County prisoner education pilot program
Establishes a pilot program in Contra Costa County whereby inmates in the county jail shall have their sentences reduced for successfully participating in basic education and vocational training programs, and makes findings and declarations, as specified.
(Died at the Senate Desk)
AB 545 (Garcia-R) Correctional peace officers
Requires all allegations or complaints regarding the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) or the Department of the California Youth Authority (CYA) employee misconduct to be investigated by internal affairs (or the successor to internal affairs, which is the Office of Investigative Services) and the results of the investigation reduced to writing. Requires DCR and CYA to develop a plan to increase the use of surveillance cameras within the institutions they administer and issue a report containing the plan to the Legislature.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 658 (Liu-D) Women inmates
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to develop an unspecified pilot program to expand incarceration options for non-violent women offenders. Options specified include housing women closer to family, reentry facilities for transitioning from prison to community, and less restrictive sanctions for parole violators. Requires appointment of a deputy director for women's programs.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 821 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Voting rights
Requires county elections officials to provide voter registration forms and copies of the "Guide to Inmate Voting" to local detention facilities, and requires those facilities to make the registration forms and guides available to the specified inmates.
(Died in Senate Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments Committee)
AB 971 (Jerome Horton-D) Corrections: superintendents
Adds superintendents of youth facilities to Section 6126.6 of the Penal Code so that those persons are subject to the same pre-appointment review process as wardens of adult facilities.
Chapter 709, Statutes of 2006
AB 1120* (Benoit-R) Persons evaluated under the Sexually Violent Predator Act
Creates a Law Enforcement Consortium to develop policy and foster cooperation and coordination in the release and supervision of parolees. Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to contact specified law enforcement entities when releasing a sexually violent predator to a county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1267 (Leslie-R) Prisoners: unauthorized wireless communication devices
Requires that the unauthorized possession of a wireless communication device, as specified, by a prisoner in a state prison or county jail will be a misdemeanor.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1465 (Mountjoy-R) Prisoners: medical treatment
Bars Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) facility staff, other than a physician, from interfering with the delivery of a treatment prescribed by a physician unless imminent risk of bodily harm to the physician, staff, or inmate requires alternate or modified procedures. Specifies that a person violating that provision will be subject to appropriate disciplinary action by DCR and will be guilty of an infraction punishable by a fine of up to $1,000, and a second or subsequent conviction for this offence will be punishable by a fine of up to $2,000.
(Died in Assembly Business and Professions Committee)
AB 1672 (Nation-D) Death row expansion study
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to solicit bids and award a contract for an independent analysis of the cost to expand death row at San Quentin State Prison, as well as possible alternatives, such as a rural and urban facility for death row inmates.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1677 (Koretz-D) Corrections: condom distribution
Requires the Director of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to allow a nonprofit or public health care agency to distribute sexual barrier protection devices, such as condoms and dental dams, to inmates.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1792 (Cohn-D) Parole
Authorizes the Board of Parole Hearings (Board) to delay annual parole hearings for inmates convicted of attempted murder for up to five years, similar to the process now used for inmates convicted of murder, if the Board finds it is not reasonable to expect that a parole date would be granted before that time.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1810 (Assembly Budget Committee) Budget deficiencies: Corrections
Provides for $125,931,000 (General Fund) and $475,000 (Inmate Welfare Fund) to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for prison and parole population adjustments and to increase the capacity of the correctional officer academy.
Chapter 55, Statutes of 2006
AB 1832 (Bermudez-D) Probation: remote alcohol monitoring systems
Makes legislative findings and declarations concerning the usefulness of continuous remote alcohol monitoring systems.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1833* (Arambula-D) Public Safety Bond Acts of 2006 and 2010
Enacts the Public Safety Bond Act of 2006 and the Public Safety Bond Act of 2010, which, if adopted, authorizes, for (1) purposes of financing the construction, expansion, renovation, replacement, or reconstruction of county jail facilities, (2) the acquisition, construction, renovation, remodeling, and deferred maintenance of state adult and youth correctional facilities, and (3) the development, renovation, repair, relocation, and restoration of state facilities, the issuance of bonds in the amount of $4,200,000,000. Requires the Secretary of State to submit the bond act to the voters at the November 2, 2010, general election.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
AB 1879 (Lieber-D) Board of Parole Hearings
Declares legislative intent that the administration recruit people for the position of Commissioner of the Board of Parole Hearings from a diverse group of qualified applicants, including people from specified professions.
(Died on Senate Floor)
AB 1894 (Blakeslee-R) Mutual aid agreements: illegal immigrants
Requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the United States Department of Homeland Security under which the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement trains, certified. Authorizes designated DCR personnel to perform certain immigration processing functions.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1981 (Bass-D) Anti-recidivism grants
Creates a competitive grant program to provide funds to local community-based organizations to establish and provide re-entry services for "local jail" inmates.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1998 (Chan-D) Parole programs in Alameda County
Directs the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to establish a parole program, including prerelease assessment and evaluation, in Alameda County for inmates committed to prison for non-serious felonies.
Chapter 732, Statutes of 2006
A similar bill was AB 629 (Chan-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 2066 (Lieber-D) Corrections: female inmates
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, as part of the mandated master plan, to create policies, operational practices, classification systems, staffing patterns and needs, case and risk management tools all designed specifically for female offenders. Requires DCR to also develop and implement gender specific rehabilitative programming in order to reduce female offender recidivism and to build and strengthen family support and involvement while female offenders are incarcerated.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2082 (Vargas-D) Inmate work camps
Establishes additional criteria for inmates eligible to be assigned to Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation conservation work camps.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2380 (Dymally-D) Parole: mental hospital
Clarifies that the term "treatment" for medically disordered offenders include involuntary medication at the discretion of the treating physician, as deemed necessary for parole purposes.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2383 (Dymally-D) Inmate medical testing
Requires state prison inmates, and state hospital patients committed pursuant to the Penal Code, to receive a health screening prior to being released.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2436 (Ruskin-D) Parole programs in East Palo Alto
Directs the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to the extent that existing and future resources are available, to establish a parole reentry program in East Palo Alto.
Chapter 779, Statutes of 2006
AB 2458 (Blakeslee-R) State audit: illegal immigration: costs
Requires the Bureau of State Audits to conduct an audit to determine the impact of illegal immigration on the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, state prisons, county jails, public safety infrastructure, and the state court system, to identify which costs may be eligible to be recouped from the federal government, and to report its findings to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2629 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Parole: sober living facilities
Includes sober living facilities that are single family dwellings as places where no more than one registered sex offender released on parole may reside.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2729 (Bogh-R) Parole: monitoring
Provides that when a sex offender on parole is subject to monitoring by global positioning system technology, local law enforcement shall be provided electronic access to the information gathered through the global positioning system monitoring.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2870 (De La Torre-D) Correctional institutions: communicable diseases
Expands existing provisions of law regarding medical testing of inmates and prisoners for HIV and AIDS to include hepatitis B and C, under certain circumstances where public employees may be exposed to bodily fluids, adds prosecutors and public defender staff to the list of persons who may request testing, includes court facilities in the locations where contact with bodily fluids may be made, and provides that the person making the request will be informed of the results of the test.
Chapter 800, Statutes of 2006
AB 2902 (Nunez-D) Prisons construction
Authorizes the Legislature to issue and sell lease-revenue bonds, in an unspecified amount, for the costs of constructing facilities to house additional state prison inmates.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2917 (Liu-D) Female prison inmates
Establishes a Gender Responsive Strategies Commission that will evaluate the conditions of female offenders in the California correctional system, and make recommendations to assist the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation in developing gender responsive strategies for women in prison. Provides that the provisions of the bill become inoperative on March 1, 2011, and sunset on January 1, 2012.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 3064 (Assembly Public Safety Committee) Inmate reentry advisory committee
Requires, on or before July 1, 2007, the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish a Reentry Advisory Committee to advise the Secretary on all matters related to the successful statewide planning, implementation and outcomes of all reentry programs and services offered by DCR.
Chapter 782, Statutes of 2006
Victims of Crime
SB 1062 (Bowen-D) Victims of crime: domestic violence and sexual assault
Adds sexual assault to California's Confidential Address Program for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking and makes technical changes to the statute that governs the domestic violence program within the Maternal Child Health Branch of the Department of Health Services and the Comprehensive Statewide Domestic Violence Program within the Office of Emergency Services.
Chapter 639, Statutes of 2006
SB 1328 (Denham-R) Exclusion of witnesses
Creates a presumption that crime victims under subpoena to testify and their support person(s) will be permitted to remain in the courtroom prior to their own testimony and to prohibit courts from excluding these persons from the courtroom prior to their own testimony without first holding a hearing and making specified findings and to reserve at least one-third of all audience seating in the courtroom in criminal trials for the victim's family, staff from a victim's services agency and the prosecuting attorney.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1743 (Bowen-D) Change of name: sexual assault victims
Exempts an action for name change, filed for the purpose of avoiding domestic violence or stalking or where the petitioner is a victim of sexual assault, from the requirement for publication of the order to show cause. Makes technical cross-referencing changes in the Evidence Code dealing with privileged communications between victims and counselors to correctly refer to the privilege as the counselor-victim privilege and the counselor as a sexual assault or domestic violence counselor or human trafficking caseworker.
Double-jointed to AB 2303 (Assembly Judiciary Committee).
Chapter 689, Statutes of 2006
SB 1745 (Kuehl-D) Employment discrimination: victims of violence
Provides that it is against the public policy of the state to discriminate against a person in employment because he/she is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, as defined.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1761 (Poochigian-R) Victim services
Redirects all but one percent of the funds now sent from the State Penalty Fund to the Drivers Training Penalty Assessment Fund (DTPAF) to peace officer training, local prosecutors and public defender training, victim-witness assistance, child advocacy centers, victim trauma recovery and witness protection purposes. Creates grant programs, funded by redirected DTPAF proceeds, to be administered by the Office of Emergency Services for county child advocacy and victim trauma recover centers until July 1, 2011.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1765 (Escutia-D) Victims of wrongful or coerced repatriation
Provides that a victim of unconstitutional, wrongful, or coerced repatriation, as defined, or the heir or beneficiary of such a victim, who resides in this state, may bring a civil action to recover damages for harm caused by the victim's coerced, forced, or falsely induced emigration in any court of competent jurisdiction, and that any such claim will not be dismissed for failure to comply with applicable statute of limitations, applicable exhaustions of administrative remedies, or applicable governmental tort claims, provided the action is commended on or before December 31, 2016.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCR 79 (Alquist-D) Crime Victims Rights Week
Designates the week of April 23 through 29, 2006, as Crime Victims Rights Week in California.
Resolution Chapter 43, Statutes of 2006
AB 50* (Leno-D) Victim compensation trauma services
Enacts legislative findings about the effectiveness of the services provided by the University of California, San Francisco (SCSF) Trauma Recover Center (TRC) previously established as a four-year pilot project which sunsetted on January 1, 2005. Reauthorizes the TRC interagency agreement for the purpose of actually providing these services not just in a demonstration capacity. Requires that the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board (Board) enter into an interagency agreement for the purpose of continued funding for the UCSF TRC, effective upon the University of California Regents adopting an appropriate resolution. Appropriates $1.3 million from the Restitution Fund to the Board for the fiscal year commencing July 1, 2006, for the TRC program.
Chapter 884, Statutes of 2006
AB 105 (Cohn-D) Victims compensation fund: relocation
Allows a crime victim to be eligible for reimbursement for multiple relocations where the need to relocate more than once arises from a single crime, without increasing the total amount of allowable reimbursement under current law.
Chapter 539, Statutes of 2006
AB 809 (La Suer-R) Victim notification
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (DCR) to establish an automated victim notification system that automatically notifies a registered crime victim when an inmate is transferred to another facility, when an inmate's security classification is changed, and when the inmate is released or escapes. Requires DCR to establish a toll-free phone number to provide crime victims the most recent status report for an offender in DCR custody.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1505 (La Suer-R) Victim restitution
Eliminates a requirement that a crime victim file a claim with the California Victim Compensation and Government Claims Board before the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation can collect money from inmates and parolees to satisfy an order by the sentencing court that the inmate or parolee make direct restitution to the victim.
Chapter 555, Statutes of 2006
AB 1657 (Evans-D) Child victims: multidisciplinary centers
Creates a funding source to support local child victim forensic interviews conducted by local child advocacy centers, by redistributing proceeds of the State Penalty Fund (SPF) and redirecting funds from the Driver Training Penalty Assessment Fund (which is funded by the SPF) to the Child Advocacy Center Fund, as created by this bill.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1781 (Mountjoy-R) Highways: victim signs
Deletes the January 1, 2007, sunset date for the requirement that the Department of Transportation place memorial signs at the request of family members for victims of accidents caused by individuals under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Chapter 81, Statutes of 2006
AB 1999* (Torrico-D) Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Fund
Imposes a tax on the sale of or the storage, use, or other consumption of, tangible personal property that is harmful matter, as defined, in this state at a rate of one percent. Creates the Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Fund and requires that all revenues, less refunds, derived from the tax be transferred to the fund. Continuously appropriates all of the money in the fund to the Department of Health Services for programs that support survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
(Died in Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee)
AB 2169 (Montanez-D) Public records: confidentiality
Extends the January 1, 2008 repeal date sunset provision for the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking program, which is administered by the Secretary of State, until January 1, 2013. That program, part of the Safe at Home project, allows victims of domestic violence or stalking to use an alternative address on public records to retain their anonymity.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2006
AB 2413 (Spitzer-R) Victims of crime reimbursement program
Makes the following changes to the victims of crime reimbursement program: (1) provide that the victim need not have died before reimbursement for crime scene cleanup is allowed, (2) provide that the crime need not have occurred in the victim's residence as a prerequisite for payment of reimbursement for home security measures, (3) allow reimbursement for home security measures to be paid to a person who resides with the actual crime victim, (4) allow reimbursement, as specified, for child care, and (5) sunset the child care reimbursement provisions in 2010.
Double-jointed with AB 105 (Cohn-D).
Chapter 571, Statutes of 2006
AB 2615 (Tran-R) Sex offenses: disclosure of victim information
Expressly authorizes probation officers to receive victim identification information in sexual assault cases.
Chapter 92, Statutes of 2006
AB 2705 (Spitzer-R) Victims of crime: Victim's Rights Card
Authorizes, but not requires, law enforcement officers to provide victims of crime with a "Victim's Rights Card" in jurisdictions which adopt this provision by resolution, as specified.
Chapter 94, Statutes of 2006
AB 2869 (Leno-D) Crime victims reimbursement fund: burial
Provides that where a crime victim was killed during commission of the crime, reimbursement for crime scene cleanup, funeral and burial expenses may be paid to the victim's family if the victim was on probation or parole, if the victim was not involved in the crime in which he or she was killed.
Chapter 582, Statutes of 2006
ACA 37 (Parra-D) Victim's rights
Expands victim rights that are guaranteed in the California Constitution.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
Weapons
SB 59 (Lowenthal-D) Mandatory reporting of theft of handguns
Requires, commencing January 1, 2007, that any person whose handgun is stolen or irretrievably lost on or after that date shall, within five working days of his/her discovery or knowledge of, or within five working days after the date he/she should reasonably have known of, the theft or loss, report the theft or loss to a local law enforcement agency of the city, county, or city and county where the loss or theft occurred, or where the person resides, as specified, with violations punishable as an infraction.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 305 (Morrow-R) Exemption from firearm's 10 day waiting period
Exempts any person who has a valid license to carry a concealed weapon or a certificate of eligibility issued by the Department of Justice from the current 10-day waiting period required in law before a firearm may be delivered, sold, or transferred to that person.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 388 (Poochigian-R) Gun violence public education program
Establishes a three-county competitive grant pilot program for the dissemination of information about prison penalties for personal and gang-related firearm crime. Participating counties must provide at least 25 percent matching funds and, upon its completion, report to the Attorney General on the impact of the program. The program sunsets January 1, 2009.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 532 (Torlakson-D) BB devices
Provides that any person who willfully discharges a BB device in a grossly negligent manner which could result in injury or death to another person is guilty of a public offense and shall be punished by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year.
Chapter 180, Statutes of 2006
SB 585 (Kehoe-D) Protective orders: firearms
Requires a person subject to a protective order to immediately surrender a firearm and file a receipt relative to the disposition of the firearm with the court. Requires the petitioner for a protective order to list and describe any firearms possessed by the respondent.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2006
SB 898 (Poochigian-R) Weapons in state buildings
Adds the State Capitol building and grounds and other specified buildings relating to legislative offices, the Governor's offices, and offices of constitutional officers to those state buildings that prohibit a person from entering while in possession of specified weapons.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 939 (Runner-R) Retired Level I and II Reserve Peace Officers
Authorizes police agencies to allow specified Level I and II reserve peace officers, as defined, to carry concealed firearms during retirement through an endorsement of an identification certificate.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
SB 1038 (Hollingsworth-R) Firearms
Provides for an award of attorney's fees if a civil action is required to recover a firearm that was not returned within five days.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1192 (Hollingsworth-R) Firearms: study
Requires the California State University at Sacramento to conduct a study of the impact of various firearms laws on violence and crimes involving firearms and report to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2008. Provides that the study will be funded by grants and private contributions.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1239 (Hollingsworth-R) Firearms: transactions
Requires a dealer, in a private-party firearms transaction, to provide copies of paperwork completed in connection with said transaction to both the buyer and the seller and to redact from those documents the purchaser's personal information from the seller's copy and the seller's personal information from the purchaser's copy.
Chapter 52, Statutes of 2006
SB 1336 (Cedillo-D) Remote stun guns
Establishes that private citizens may purchase and own remote stun guns, to establish various requirements for the remote stun guns and their sale and to increase penalties for the improper use of a remote stun gun.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1422 (Margett-R) Public safety: omnibus bill
Makes technical and corrective changes in various penal statutes.
Chapter 901, Statutes of 2006
SB 1538 (Scott-D) Firearm registration
Increases the penalty for persons who are prohibited from owning a firearm to knowingly provide false or incomplete information to a firearm dealer in attempting to purchase a firearm, from a misdemeanor to a wobbler.
Double-jointed with SB 1239 (Hollingsworth-R) and AB 2521 (Jones-D).
Chapter 668, Statutes of 2006
SB 1545 (Poochigian-R) Firearms
Provides a sentence enhancement of one, two or three years in state prison for any person who carries a concealed or loaded weapon and has been previously convicted of a specified felony offense.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 98 (Cohn-D) Firearms
Expands existing gun law by prohibiting the carrying of an unloaded, unconcealed handgun and by making numerous technical amendments.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 101 (Cohn-D) Remote stun guns
Permits any adult, with specified exceptions, to possess a remote stun gun, as defined, for defensive use. Revises penalties for assault with a remote stun gun. Requires manufacturers and sellers of remote stun guns to collect personal identification from buyers and provide that to the manufacturer.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 157 (Levine-D) Tasers
Establishes the offense of carrying concealed, within a vehicle or upon the person, a taser. Provides that the offense is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not to exceed one year, or by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by both imprisonment and that fine.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 352 (Koretz-D) Semiautomatic firearms: microstamping
Adds, commencing January 1, 2009, to the existing unsafe handgun law requirements for semiautomatic pistols that they be equipped with a microscopic array of characters that identify the make, model, and serial number of the pistol, etched or otherwise imprinted onto the interior surface or internal working parts of the pistol, and which are transferred by imprinting on each cartridge case when the firearm is fired, as specified.
(Died in Conference Committee)
AB 448 (La Suer-R) Assault weapons
Repeals California's Assault Weapons Ban which regulates the sale, transportation, possession and registration of assault weapons.
(Failed passage in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 814 (Cogdill-R) Firearms: peace officers: concealed weapons
Conforms state law regarding regulating the carrying of concealed firearms by retired California peace officers, and by peace officers and retired peace officers from other jurisdictions while in California, to federal law.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 944 (Ridley-Thomas-D) Required warning: "Danger of firearms in Homes"
Requires that a specified "warning" about the dangers of firearms in the home is posted at firearms dealers and, "conspicuously" printed on all firearms sales contracts and on the first page of the Department of Justice instructional manual for the Handgun Safety Certificate program.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1237 (Leno-D) Tasers
Requires law enforcement agencies that use tasers to report the use of tasers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for one year and for DOJ to report this data to the Legislature. Authorizes the Department of Health Services to contract with a private entity, funded by private sources, to conduct an independent medical review of the effects of taser use on humans and to report any policy recommendations to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2007.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1647 (Negrete McLeod-D) Peace officers
Removes prohibitions against carrying firearms for specified categories of state peace officers. Requires additional specialized training for these officers, as specified, and requires them to requalify in the use of firearms every six months or less, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1710 (Wyland-R) Tasers
Requires any seller of a taser, as defined, to register the identity of the buyer with the taser manufacturer.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1912 (Maze-R) Employment rights
Limits an employer's ability to discipline an employee for lawfully storing a firearm in their vehicle at the workplace.
(Died in Assembly Labor and Employment Committee)
AB 2096* (Parra-D) Firearm safety devices
Exempts from the sales and use tax the purchase of a firearm safety device or gun safe, beginning January 1, 2007.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2111 (Haynes-R) Purchase of firearms
Permits the completion of a handgun transfer where the handgun has been removed from the Department of Justice's "not unsafe" handgun roster only because the fee required for it to be maintained on the list was not paid.
Chapter 71, Statutes of 2006
AB 2129 (Spitzer-R) Restraining orders: firearm relinquishment
Requires that persons who are subject to a protective order involving harassment, witness or victim intimidation and elder or dependent adult abuse be required to relinquish any firearms in their possession or control within 24 hours of being served with the protective order.
Chapter 474, Statutes of 2006
AB 2131 (Haynes-R) Assault weapons
Revises permit and registration procedures for assault weapons obtained from intestate succession and assault weapons being brought into the state by a person moving into the state, and for other persons wishing to acquire an assault weapon, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2199 (Harman-R) Diversion: firearm offenses
Establishes a pretrial diversion education program for persons arrested for nonviolent misdemeanor or felony firearms offenses.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2229 (La Suer-R) Sentencing: enhancements: use of firearms
Creates an exception to the law that prohibits a judge from striking the prescribed sentence enhancement for personal use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, allowing the judge to strike the enhancement if the firearm use involved a peace officer in the performance of his or her duties.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2521 (Jones-D) Firearms
Makes changes in firearms laws pertaining to out-of-state shipments of firearms from holders of federal firearms licenses to persons in California. Double-jointed with SB 1239 (Hollingsworth-R) and SB 1538 (Scott-D).
Chapter 784, Statutes of 2006
AB 2537 (Montanez-D) Weapons: school prohibition
Extends current alternate felony/misdemeanor ("wobbler") against bringing onto school grounds any instrument that expels a metallic projectile to include any instrument that expels a nonmetallic BB or pellet.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2714 (Torrico-D) Ammunition
Establishes that a seller of handgun ammunition is guilty of a misdemeanor, as specified, if the seller fails to do all of the following when delivering handgun ammunition pursuant to a retail transaction being a common carrier or contract carrier: (1) ensure that the carrier obtains a signature from the purchaser and views bona fide evidence of identity to verify that the purchaser is older than 21 years old, (2) ensure that the carrier returns a copy of the signed receipt to the seller, (3) keep a copy of the signed receipt for three years, and (4) ensure that the container being delivered conspicuously states "SIGNATURE AND BONA FIDE EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY REQUIRED. PURCHASER MUST BE AGE 21 YEARS OR OLDER FOR DELIVERY" in 14-point type.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2728 (Klehs-D) Assault weapons
Repeals the existing provisions establishing a judicial procedure for declaring a firearm to be an assault weapon. Provides that the Attorney General's duty to promulgate a list of all firearms designated as assault weapons shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2007, but that any firearm declared to be an assault weapon prior to that date shall remain on the list. Provides that illegal possession of any assault weapon or .50 caliber BMG rifle is a public nuisance. Authorizes the Attorney General, any district attorney or city attorney to enjoin the possession of such firearms in lieu of criminal prosecution. Provides that illegally possessed assault weapons or .50 caliber BMG rifle will be destroyed, except as specified. Provides that upon conviction of any misdemeanor or felony involving an assault weapon, the weapons shall be deemed a nuisance and disposed of, as specified.
Chapter 793, Statutes of 2006
ACR 73 (McCarthy-R) California Law Revision Commission
States that Title 2 (commencing with Section 12000) of Part 4 of the Penal Code, relating to the control of deadly weapons, is lengthy and complex and could be simplified and that it is the intent of the Legislature that the firearms laws be simplified and reorganized.
Resolution Chapter 128, Statutes of 2006
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions
SB 10 (Dunn-D) Trial court facilities
Provides, if responsibility for court facilities is transferred from the county to the state pursuant to a negotiated agreement, and the building containing those court facilities is rated as a "level V seismic rating," as defined, that the county shall be responsible for any seismic-related damage and injury only to the same extent that the county would be liable if responsibility was not transferred to the state, and the county shall indemnify, defend and hold the state harmless from any such claims, except as specified. Requires the county, in the event that seismic-related damage occurs, to either make repairs or provide funds to the state sufficient to make those repairs, as specified. Authorizes the county and the Judicial Council to agree on a method to address the seismic issue so that the state does not have a financial burden greater than it would have had if the court facilities initially transferred were court facilities in buildings rated as a level IV seismic rating. Authorizes the California State Association of Counties, the Judicial Council of California, and the Director of the Department of Finance to agree to alternative methods for calculating the county facilities payment amount to be used by any county meeting the criteria set forth in those alternative methods. Provides that the provisions of this bill sunset January 1, 2010.
Chapter 444, Statutes of 2006
SB 56 (Dunn-D) Trial court judges and officers
Requires, upon legislative appropriation, 50 additional superior court judgeships allocated to various county courts in accordance with uniform standards established by the Judicial Council.
Chapter 390, Statutes of 2006
SB 93 (Florez-D) Local government finance: Tulare County
Reduces the amount of interest owed by Tulare County on the amount of fees, fines, forfeitures, and penalties it failed to remit to the Trial Court Improvement Fund for fiscal years 1996-97 to 1999-2000.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 262 (Dunn-D) State Bar of California: audit
Broadens the list of qualified accounting firms that may be selected to conduct the State Bar audit.
Chapter 15, Statutes of 2006
SB 395 (Escutia-D) California Court Facilities Bond Act of 2006
Enacts the California Court Facilities Bond Act of 2006. Authorizes the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of a yet unspecified amount in bonds. Provides that the proceeds of which will be deposited in the 2006 California Court Facilities Bond Act Construction Fund for specified purposes relating to the acquisition and maintenance of court facilities, including the payment of a county's share of building costs in a shared-use facility through a lease-financing agreement between the Judicial Council and the county.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 506 (Poochigian-R) Public officials and homeland security
Provides confidentiality of voter registration information to public safety officials, sate and federal judges, and court commissioners.
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2006
SB 827 (Maldonado-R) County trial costs: state reimbursement
Permits counties to apply to the State Controller for reimbursement of costs incurred for trials of high profile sex offense cases.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1014* (Alquist-D) Trial costs: Peterson case
Allows local agencies to apply to the State Controller, using the county homicide trial reimbursement authorization, for reimbursement of extraordinary costs incurred in the investigation and prosecution of People v. Scott Peterson homicide case.
(Died in Senate Local Government Committee)
SB 1187 (Ackerman-R) Judges' retirement
Authorizes the Public Employees Retirement System to offer the option of an actuarially equivalent lifetime annuity to a vested judge under the Judges' Retirement System II (JRS II) who leaves office prior to achieving normal retirement age.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1375 (Lowenthal-D) Courts: replacement of deficient facilities
Requires the state to become a party to any public-private partnership agreement entered into a county that involves a capital lease for the construction of new court facilities to replace deficient court facilities, if the Judicial Council determines that court facilities have deficiencies and that construction of replacement facilities is the most suitable means to correct those deficiencies.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1568 (Dunn-D) Unaccredited and correspondence law schools
Transfers regulation and oversight of unaccredited law schools and correspondence law schools from the Bureau of Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education to the State Bar's Committee of Bar Examiners. Requires correspondence law schools to disclose their faculty-to-student ratio and their First Year Law Students Examination ("baby bar") and the general bar exam passage rates to prospective students, in the same manner required of unaccredited schools.
Chapter 534, Statutes of 2006
SB 1696 (Dunn-D) Los Angeles County Superior Court: employees
Requires the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay each employee in a bargaining unit represented by any specified employee organization an amount equivalent to the additional amount the employee would have received if the reclassification raise the employee received on October 1, 2005, had been retroactive to August 1, 2005.
Vetoed by the Governor
SCA 16 (Runner-R) Judicial districts
Provides that the superior court of any county with a population of more than five million shall be divided into judicial districts established by three special masters appointed by the Supreme Court and prescribes specified population, geographical, and public hearing requirements for the establishment of those districts. Provides for the assignment of incumbent superior court judges to judicial districts within the county in a one-time process conducted by the Judicial Council following the initial establishment of the districts.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 27 (Hollingsworth-R) The California Supreme Court
Provides that the Supreme Court will have exclusive original jurisdiction in any civil action in which the validity of any initiative or referendum measure, initiative amendment, general obligation bond act, other ballot measure, or constitutional amendment or revision approved by the voters at a statewide election is challenged.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 108 (Houston-R) Attorneys: advertising
Regulates advertising by plaintiffs' attorneys regarding construction defect issues.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 250 (Matthews-D) Merced County: homicide trial costs
Requires the state to reimburse 100 percent of the costs incurred by the County of Merced for the homicide investigation and prosecution of People v. Cuitlahuac Tahua Rivera.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
A similar bill was AB 2405 (Matthews-D) which died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 262 (Berg-D) Courts: transfer of county facilities
Prohibits the Judicial Council from requiring that a court facility proposed to be transferred from a county to the state, pursuant to the Trial Court Facilities Act of 2002, meet a building standard stricter than a standard adopted by the county for county buildings.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 750 (Mullin-D) Criminal trial costs: San Mateo County
Provides that the County of San Mateo may file, and that the Commission on State Mandates may pay from the State Mandates Claim Fund, a claim for legal counsel defense costs in designated cases in excess of the annual rates for court-appointed defense counsel, for specified reasons.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 928 (Jerome Horton-D) Attorney's fees
Establishes a fixed amount for attorney's fees to be awarded in collection actions on specified contracts.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1129* (Mountjoy-R) Judicial elections
Gives candidates for judicial office only (i.e., superior court) until 5:00 p.m. on the 83rd day before the election to file a candidate statement. Sunsets on December 31, 2006.
Chapter 6, Statutes of 2006
AB 1293 (Oropeza-D) Shorthand reporters: Transcript Reimbursement Fund
Expands the current definition of indigent person, for purposes of reimbursement of shorthand reporting costs from the Transcript Reimbursement Fund, to any of the following: (1) a person whose income is 125 percent or less of the current poverty threshold established by the Office of Management and Budget of the United States, (2) a person who is eligible for supplemental security income, (3) a person who is eligible for, or receiving, free services under the Older Americans Act or the Developmentally Disabled Assistance Act, and (4) a person whose income is 75 percent or less of the maximum level of income for lower income households, as established by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and related state statute and regulation. Provides that its provisions become inoperative as of July 1, 2009, and are repealed as of January 1, 2010.
Chapter 457, Statutes of 2006
AB 1453 (Daucher-R) Superior Courts: water divisions
Establishes nine water divisions in the superior courts of specified counties. Requires the presiding judge of the superior court of each specified county to assign a water judge to the water division to preside over actions that involve the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater, consider the experience in groundwater adjudications of each candidate for assignment as water judge, and provides for filing the position of water judge in the event of a vacancy. Provides that a water judge has exclusive subject matter jurisdiction and a water division has exclusive venue, over all matters relating to the adjudication of rights to produce groundwater.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1599 (La Malfa-R) Homicide trial costs
Requires the state to reimburse 100 percent of the costs incurred by the Counties of Tehama and Siskiyou for specified trials.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1797 (Bermudez-D) Trial courts: limited-term employees
Provides that in Los Angeles County, a limited-term employee, including any limited-term clerk, is a regular trial court employee if the assignment, position, or project of the limited-term employee is an integral part of the long-term, regular work of the trial court. Specifies that this provision applies to limited-term law clerks beginning November 1, 2007.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Funding issues
General Government Trailer Bill to the 2006 Budget which, among other provisions, provides for an increase of 8.5 percent for judicial compensation in 2006-07. Modifies the collaboration and elements of State appropriation limit adjustment for Trial Court Funding and allows the Habeas Corpus Resource Center to increase handling capital habeas corpus appointments from 30 to 34.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Drug courts
Implements the human services budget bill which, among other provisions, deletes the sunset date for the Comprehensive Drug Court Program.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Judiciary: budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006 which, among other provisions, provides an additional $7.3 million to provide for an 8.5 percent salary increase for judges, effective July 1, 2007, and appropriates an additional $2.7 million to increase the number of new judgeships to 50.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 1886 (Dymally-D) Court employees
Requires all security personnel, clerical staff, and office assistants for each court of appeal to be state employees.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1919 (Aghazarian-R) Judicial Council: collection actions
Requires the Judicial Council to create a working group to explore the practice, procedure and administration of simple collection cases in the trial courts.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1995 (Koretz-D) Trial court employees: personnel files
Requires a trial court to permit an employee, upon request, to inspect any personnel files that are or were used to determine the employee's qualifications for employment, promotion, additional compensation, or termination or other disciplinary action.
Chapter 187, Statutes of 2006
AB 2181* (Salinas-D) Truants: parents: court authority
Deletes the sunset date of January 1, 2006, from provisions related to mandatory education, thereby extending indefinitely the authority of the court to order or punish a person for failing to comply with compulsory attendance laws.
Chapter 273, Statutes of 2006
AB 2227 (Chu-D) Courts: advisory panel on language access
Establishes a Blue Ribbon Panel on Language Access in the courts to make recommendations to the Legislature and Judicial Council regarding court interpreter issues.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2301 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) State Bar: legal services to the poor
Facilitates compliance with professional responsibilities of lawyers by promoting voluntary charitable giving to support legal services programs.
Chapter 165, Statutes of 2006
AB 2302 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Evidence: court interpreters
Provides for court interpreters when needed for those parties in family, domestic violence, and other civil matters who require assistance with English.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2303 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Omnibus bill
Enacts assorted changes in 32 various provisions of the law, including (1) requiring all paralegals to certify completion every two years of four hours of mandatory continuing legal education in legal ethics and four hours of mandatory continuing legal education in general law or an area of specialized law, (2) extending the operative date to January 1, 2010, on provisions relative to compelling a potential juror to serve, (3) providing the Commission on Judicial Performance access to nonpublic and confidential records relevant to the performance of judges, former judges, and subordinate judicial officers and providing a mechanism for the public disclosure thereof, as specified, and (4) extending the deadline for the County of Merced to execute transfer of its responsibilities and/or title for various court facilities. Failure to meet the deadline obligates the County to repay the state for all construction funds used in the project.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2006
AB 2305 (Klehs-D) Court reporting
Increases fees for transcription services of court reporters.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2455 (Nakanishi-R) Small claims court
Limits, from $5,000 to $7,500, for an action brought by a natural person. Provides that the small claims court will have the jurisdiction in an action brought by a natural person against the Registrar of the Contractors State License Board as the defendant guarantor holding a contractor's cash deposit, if the amount of the demand does not exceed $7,500.
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2006
AB 2482 (Harman-R) Arbitration: out-of-work attorneys
Revises the rules that allow an out-of-state attorney to represent a party in an arbitration proceeding in this state or to render legal services in this state in connection with an out-of-state arbitration proceeding.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2006
AB 2519* (Umberg-D) Judges: qualification requirements
Requires attorneys to be active members of the California State Bar for at least 10 years in order to be qualified to be selected or elected as a superior court judge in California.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2618 (Berg-D) Small claims court jurisdiction
Updates various code sections that provide for small claims court jurisdiction in specified circumstances to conform to the new small claims court jurisdiction section, which provides that, in addition to the jurisdiction conferred by Section 116.220 of the Code of Civil Procedure ($5,000), the small claims court has jurisdiction in an action brought by a natural person, if the amount of the demand, except as specified, does not exceed $7,500.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2006
AB 2679 (Harman-R) Legal services for poor
Prohibits a recipient from using funds received from the State Bar because they are indigent to provide legal assistance to a person who is not a citizen of the United States unless he or she is an eligible alien, as defined, or meets certain requirements related to an emergency situation or to battery or extreme cruelty.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2803 (Parra-D) Attorney advertising: residential construction defects
Regulates client solicitation by plaintiffs' attorneys regarding construction defect problems.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
ACA 38 (DeVore-R) The Supreme Court
Provides that the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction, and no other state court has jurisdiction, in any civil action challenging the facial validity of any statewide initiative measure or referendum placed on the ballot by signature petition of the voters and approved by the voters at a statewide election, and that no civil action may be brought in any state court to challenge the facial validity of an initiative measure or referendum after the 90-day period immediately following the effective date of that initiative measure or referendum.
(Died in Assembly being unassigned to a committee)
Law Enforcement
SB 75 (Dunn-D) Budget Act of 2005: contingencies and emergencies
Appropriates $1,300,000 to the Department of Justice to cover the cost of DNA collection kits for local law enforcement, pursuant to Proposition 69.
Chapter 39, Statutes of 2006
SB 328 (Cedillo-D) Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights
Requires the Commission on State Mandates to adopt a "reasonable reimbursement methodology" for the payment of claims filed by a local agency for costs incurred under the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 506 (Poochigian-R) Public officials and homeland security
Provides confidentiality of voter registration information to public safety officials, state and federal judges, and court commissioners. Allows a local elections official in his/her discretion to extend confidentiality of vote registration information to specified public safety officials. Double-joints with AB 2005 (Emmerson-R).
Chapter 466, Statutes of 2006
SB 603 (Ortiz-D) Law enforcement: anti-reproductive rights crimes
Requires the Commission on the Status of Women to convene an advisory committee that will be responsible for reporting, as specified, to the Legislature and specifies agencies on the implementation of the Reproductive Rights Law Enforcement Act and the effectiveness of the plan developed by the Attorney General.
Chapter 481, Statutes of 2006
SB 660 (Kuehl-D) Public school students: questioning
Requires an elementary school principal to obtain the oral consent of a parent, guardian, or responsible relative of a pupil before making that pupil available to a peace officer for questioning, and requires a high school principal to inform a pupil of his or her right to request his or her parent, guardian, or responsible relative be present during questioning.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 692 (Morrow-R) Undocumented workers
Includes representation from the Department of the California Highway Patrol within the membership of the Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SB 779 (Escutia-D) Peace officers: complaints: discovery
Requires law enforcement agencies to maintain, for at least 15 years, documents pertaining to complaints made against officers. Provides that these documents must be maintained in a file separate from his or her personnel file and are to include charges involving misconduct or moral turpitude. Modifies the discovery process for these files.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 927 (Lowenthal-D) Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement
Imposes a fee on shipping containers processed through the ports and using the funds derived to, among other things, (1) fund port security programs, as authorized, and (2) require, beginning January 1, 2007, the ports to develop a list of security enhancement projects, as specified, and further requires, no later than September 1, 2007, that the ports finalize the list at a public hearing.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1005* (Florez-D) Property tax exemption
Exempts fully from property taxation the principal residence of the unmarried surviving spouse of a person that died as a result of a service-connected disease or injury, as specified. Fully exempts from property taxation, beginning with the lien date for the 2006-07 fiscal year, the principal residence of the unmarried surviving spouse of a qualified public safety officer that died in the line of duty, as specified.
(Died in Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee)
SB 1184 (Cedillo-D) Attempted murder: nonsworn uniformed employee
Makes the penalty of attempted murder of a custody assistant, or similar non-sworn uniformed sheriff's employee, the same as the penalty for attempted murder of a custodial officer and creates the category of custody assistant.
Chapter 468, Statutes of 2006
SB 1241 (Cox-R) Deputy sheriffs: state citizenship
Allows deputy sheriffs and deputy marshals to reside outside the state of California.
Chapter 53, Statutes of 2006
SB 1247 (Runner-R) Fingerprinting: certification
Adds employees of a tribal gaming agency to those persons exempt from certification under the Department of Justice's certification program for persons who roll fingerprints for non-law enforcement purposes (licensing certification and employment) if the employee has received training for applicant fingerprint rolling, has undergone a criminal history background check, and if the fingerprints he or she will be rolling are for tribal-state compact compliance purposes only.
Chapter 141, Statutes of 2006
SB 1261 (McClintock-R) Criminal justice statistics
Requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to create a separate online report containing specified statistics broken down according to law enforcement agency. Requires DOJ to make this separate report available through a link prominently displayed on DOJ's Internet web site.
Chapter 306, Statutes of 2006
SB 1319 (Cedillo-D) Homeless persons: release from hospitals and jails
Prohibits medical care providers and law enforcement agencies from transporting those in need of homeless support services without first confirming there is adequate space for the person at the shelter and authorizes a civil penalty of $10,000 for each violation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1544 (Migden-D) Criminal investigations: eyewitness identification: lineups
Sets up statewide standards for the identification of suspects by witnesses by requiring double blind sequential lineups in most cases and prohibiting show-up identifications.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1631 (Romero-D) Use of force investigation: release of peace officer names
Requires that when an agency or department conducts an investigation that reviews the use of force by a peace officer or custodial officer, the agency or department shall release to the public the factual findings of the investigation and the conclusions of the review, including the name of the officer involved.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1668 (Bowen-D) Child death: review teams
Provides that the records exempt from disclosure to third parties pursuant to state or federal law remain exempt, with specified guidelines, from disclosure when they are in the possession of a child death review team (CDRT). Requires that CDRTs make available to the public, no less than once each year, findings, conclusions and recommendations of the CDRT, including specified data.
Chapter 813, Statutes of 2006
SB 1757 (Ortiz-D) FPPC investigators: peace officer status
Appropriates $15,000 for the Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) to contract with the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to perform a feasibility study regarding the appropriateness of granting peace officer status, without sue of firearms, to FPPC investigators.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1759 (Ashburn-R) Health: background checks
Makes a number of revisions to criminal clearance provisions for departments under the jurisdiction of the Health and Human Services Agency, including the Department of Health Services and the Department of Social Services, with regard to clearance requirements before work.
Chapter 902, Statutes of 2006
SB 1767 (Hollingsworth-R) Local law enforcement: immigration laws
Requires the Attorney General to identify jurisdictions and law enforcement agencies that have adopted ordinances or regulations that prohibit their offices or employees from cooperating in their official capacities with federal immigration officials in order to deny the jurisdiction or law enforcement agency state aid.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 1815 (Romero-D) Workers' compensation: peace officers
Requires that an employee who is a peace officer who suffers an injury that arises out of, or in the course of, employment has the right to be treated for that injury by a physician of his or her choice at a facility of his or her choice within a reasonable geographic area. Requires an employer, with respect to an employee who is a peace officer and who suffers an injury that arises out of, or in the course of, employment to provide all reasonable medical treatment recommended by the employee's designated treating physician to cure or relieve the employee from the effects of his or her injury.
(Died in Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee)
SCA 29 (Morrow-R) California Port Security Enhancement Act
Amends the California Constitution to prohibit a state or local government entity that owns, controls, or operates a harbor or port facility within the state from authorizing or permitting, by contract or otherwise, an entity that is owned or controlled by a government of or in a foreign country to manage or operate the harbor or port. Includes a requirement that the Governor disclose to the public who owns or controls the entities that manage or operate the harbors and ports in this state. Authorizes the Governor to promulgate regulations, as may be necessary, requiring public and private entities in possession of that information to disclose it to the Governor.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SCR 7 (Denham-R) Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 99 in the City of Merced as the Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway to honor the memory of Stephan Gene Gray, a City of Merced police officer, who was killed in the line of duty on April 15, 2004, while engaged in an undercover assignment with the department's Special Operations Unit.
Resolution Chapter 56, Statutes of 2006
SCR 20 (Soto-D) CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway
Designates a section of state Highway Route 60 in the City of Pomona as the "CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway," in honor of CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner who, on April 21, 2004, after testifying in five separate traffic cases, was fatally wounded by an armed assailant while leaving the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Pomona.
Resolution Chapter 2, Statutes of 2006
SCR 93 (Runner-R) Memorial highway
Designates a specified portion of State Highway Route 5 in the County of Los Angeles as the California Highway Patrol Officers James E. Pence, Jr., Roger D. Gore, Walter C. Frago, and George M. Alleyn Memorial Highway, in honor of the memory of these officers who were killed in the line of duty in the early morning hours of April 6, 1970, by armed assailants during a traffic enforcement stop in Newhall.
Resolution Chapter 92, Statutes of 2006
SCR 95 (Soto-D) Officer Richard Hyche Memorial Freeway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 10 in the City of Ontario as the Officer Richard Hyche Memorial Freeway to honor the memory of Officer Hyche, who was killed by a single gunshot by a suspect being sought in connection with a murder that had occurred the previous day at the Pepper Tree Motel in the City of Ontario.
Resolution Chapter 93, Statutes of 2006
SCR 96 (Ortiz-D) Deputy Sheriff Sandra Powell-Larson Memorial Highway
Designates the northbound and southbound portions of State Highway Route 5, between Q and J Streets in the County of Sacramento, to be dedicated to the memory of this law enforcement officer who made the ultimate sacrifice in her service to the people of the State of California, when she died in the line of duty at 48 years of age while transporting state prisoners on northbound State Highway Route 5 at 375 feet south of R Street in Sacramento.
Resolution Chapter 113, Statutes of 2006
SJR 26 (Morrow-R) Port security
Memorializes the President and Congress of the United States to exercise the utmost scrutiny and judgment in any decision affecting the port and maritime security of the United States and her citizens, specifically with regard to the potential Dubai Port World contract. Memorializes the federal government to ensure that any terminal operation contracts abide strictly by the Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002 and the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code.
(Died in Senate Transportation and Housing Committee)
SR 25 (Perata-D) Department of the California Highway Patrol
Thanks the members of the Department of the California Highway Patrol and their families for the sacrifices they make on behalf of all Californians.
Adopted by the Senate
SR 28 (Romero-D) Innocence Project
Commends the Northern California Innocence Project and California Innocence Project, and their staffs and student volunteers, for their outstanding dedication and unwavering service to the pursuit of ensuring that wrongs are put right in California's criminal justice system.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 104 (Bass-D) Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act
Makes numerous and significant revisions to the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Proposition 36 of the November 2000 election).
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 272* (Parra-D) Peace officers: custodial officers
Grants the Counties of Inyo, Kings, and Tulare the authority currently granted to the Counties of Los Angeles, Riverside, and San Diego and fourteen other counties to employ deputy sheriffs who are employed to perform duties exclusively or initially relating to custodial assignment and who are peace officers pursuant to Section 830.1(c) of the Penal Code.
Chapter 127, Statutes of 2006
AB 373 (Bermudez-D) Law enforcement officer safety
Creates the Two-Officer Patrol Car Pilot Program and requires the Department of Justice (DOJ) to develop criteria and methods to test the safety and efficiency of two-officer patrol car deployment. Specifies that DOJ must report the program's results to the Legislature and Governor by January 1, 2008.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 507 (Daucher-R) Criminal history checks: health studio child care providers
Requires criminal background checks of people who are employed by "health studios" to provide child care.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 542 (Huff-R) Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) to permit volunteers who have the approval of the chief of police or the sheriff for which the volunteer intends to perform services, to participate in any training course which POST provides.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 618 (Cogdill-R) Financial fraud: law enforcement
Allows law enforcement and district attorneys to be able to obtain from the bank, credit union or savings bank any surveillance video tapes or photographs from the date of the incident in the possession of the bank.
Chapter 705, Statutes of 2006
AB 804 (La Suer-R) Department of the California Highway Patrol: freeway signs
Permits the Commissioner of the Department of the California Highway Patrol to request the Legislature to adopt a concurrent resolution directing the Department of Transportation to install freeway signs memorializing CHP officers killed in the line of duty.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 812 (Matthews-D) Standardized background checks
Requires standardized background checks within the Health and Human Services Agency.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 814 (Cogdill-R) Peace officers: concealed weapons
Conforms state law regarding regulating the carrying of concealed firearms by retired California peace officers, and by peace officers and retired peace officers from other jurisdictions while in California, to federal law.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1035 (Spitzer-R) Public officials: Internet posting of home information
Expands the protections already provided in existing law that prohibit the Internet posting of an elected or appointed official's home address or telephone numbers.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1079 (Sharon Runner-R) Department of Developmental Services: criminal histories
Requires the Director of the Department of Development Services to obtain criminal history information regarding the consumers and, notwithstanding confidentiality provisions, to disclose that information to the regional centers and existing or prospective community care providers.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 1138 (Dymally-D) PERS: CHP officers
Authorizes current members of the Department of the California Highway Patrol who are former members of the California State Police (CSP) to convert their service performed with the CSP to patrol member service under the Public Employees' Retirement System.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 1237 (Leno-D) Tasers
Requires law enforcement agencies that use tasers to report the use of tasers to the Department of Justice (DOJ) for one year and for DOJ to report these data to the Legislature. Authorizes the Department of Health Services to contract with a private entity, funded by private sources, to conduct an independent medical review of the effects of taser use on humans to report any policy recommendations to the Legislature no later than July 1, 2007.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1289 (Jerome Horton-D) Peace officers: state hospital police
Arms state hospital and developmental center peace officers by deleting the statutory provision that allows them to carry guns only if authorized by, and under terms and conditions specified by, their employing agency.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1294 (Umberg-D) Investigative subpoenas: violent felonies
Authorizes the chief executive officer of a law enforcement agency to issue subpoenas for the production of specified records from public utilities, banks, credit unions, telephone companies or other providers of electronic communication services when investigating a violent felony.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1368 (Umberg-D) Workers' compensation: public safety members
Exempts specified medical conditions for certain public safety members and employees.
Chapter 836, Statutes of 2006
AB 1470 (Negrete McLeod-D) Criminal history information: minors
Requires an arresting agency to provide the Department of Justice with the fingerprints and arrest data of any juvenile arrested for a crime.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1601 (Laird-D) Child care: background checks
Adds aunts and uncles to the set of persons who must undergo criminal record and child abuse central index clearances to be paid for caring for state-subsidized children, and more quickly suspends from payment any person who is determined to have a criminal record of more than traffic infractions.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 1647 (Negrete McLeod-D) Peace officers
Removes prohibitions in existing law against carrying firearms for specified categories of state peace officers. Requires additional specialized training for these officers, as specified, and requires them to requalify in the use of firearms every six months or less, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 1688 (Niello-R) Illegal dumping enforcement officers
Grants powers of arrest, as specified, to illegal dumping enforcement officers, as defined, to the extent necessary to enforce laws related to illegal dumping, or littering, provided that they complete a training course in the exercise of those powers, certified by the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training. Makes that authority contingent upon a memorandum of understanding with the sheriff or police chief in the jurisdiction permitting exercise of that authority.
Chapter 267, Statutes of 2006
AB 1774* (Assembly Human Services Committee) Child welfare services: criminal record checks
Clarifies current law with regard to access to California Law Enforcement Telecommunications System data as it applies to criminal background checks done for the purposes of determining family reunification of a child, conforms state law to Federal Bureau of Investigation requirements relative to states receiving information from federal criminal databases used to check for out-of-state convictions, and changes, from five judicial days to 10 business days, the time allowed to fingerprint certain individuals. Double-joints with SB 1667 (Kuehl-D).
Chapter 726, Statutes of 2006
AB 1805* (Assembly Budget Committee) Law enforcement
Implements the local government portion of the 2006 Budget Act which, among other provisions, allows a new state subvention of $35 million annually, subject to appropriation, for the operation, maintenance or construction of local detention facilities beginning in 2007-08 and prohibits counties and cities form changing general booking fees in any fiscal year during which the subvention is fully funded.
Chapter 78, Statutes of 2006
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Law enforcement
General Government Trailer Bill to the 2006 Budget Act which, among other provisions, levees an additional one dollar for every ten dollars in fines, penalties, or forfeitures collected by the courts for criminal offenses and requires all of those funds to be deposited in the state's DNA Identification Fund.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1811* (Laird-D) Public safety budget trailer bill
Amends and supplements the Budget Act of 2006 which provides augmentation and changes, as follows: $38 million for COPS/Juvenile Justice, $45 million for mentally disordered offender challenge grants, $8 million for Virtual Prosecution, $35 million for booking fees/local detention programs, language allowing the use of $6 million in the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation budget for victim representation at parole revocation hearings, $500 for Central Coast Rural Crime Program.
Chapter 48, Statutes of 2006
AB 1848 (Bermudez-D) Interoperable public safety communication network
Specifies that the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee's annual report to the Legislature shall serve as the state's strategic plan for establishing a statewide integrated, interoperable public safety communications network and requires the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee to include specified information in the report and to update the report annually. Authorizes the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee to consult with and make recommendations to local, regional, state, and federal agencies to advance the integration of local, regional, and statewide public safety communication networks.
Chapter 728, Statutes of 2006
AB 1871 (Benoit-R) Law enforcement communications
Requires telecommunications service providers to provide law enforcement agencies with customer information, as defined, under exigent circumstances. Requires telecommunications service providers to maintain all requests from law enforcement agencies for customer information for at least two years and provide that after a release of customer information to a law enforcement agency a telecommunications provider shall be entitled to obtain from the agency all legal documents, as specified, that formed the basis for the agency's request.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 1882 (Frommer-D) Los Angeles World Airport Police
Reclassifies Los Angeles World Airport Police from Penal Code Section 830.33 status, expanding their authority to perform certain tasks.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 1911* (Garcia-R) SAFE teams
Appropriates $15 million General Fund to the State Controller for implementation of county and regional Sexual Assault Felony Enforcement (SAFE) team programs from January 1, 2007 to January 10, 2010. Provides that the funds shall be allocated to the State Controller to participating county sheriff, probation, and city police departments who contribute officers to the SAFE task force to monitor habitual sex offenders in their jurisdictions.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1942 (Nava-D) Arrests
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop guidelines and training for law enforcement officers to address issues related to child safety when a caretaker parent or guardian is arrested.
Chapter 729, Statutes of 2006
AB 1979 (Bass-D) Community care facilities: criminal record information
Requires that any volunteer mentor to foster children complete a criminal background check prior to contact with a child. Specifies that supervising departments are responsible for costs associated with the criminal record check.
Chapter 382, Statutes of 2006
AB 1980 (Bass-D) City of Los Angeles security officers
Grants powers of arrest, as specified, to security officers employed by the City of Los Angeles, acting in the course and scope of their duties, provided that they complete a training course in the exercise of those powers, certified by the Commission on Peace Officer's Standards and Training. Makes that authority contingent upon a memorandum of understanding with the City of Los Angeles and the Chief of Police of the City of Los Angeles, permitting the exercise of that authority. Double-joints with AB 1688 (Niello-R).
Chapter 271, Statutes of 2006
AB 2005 (Emmerson-R) Public records: confidentiality
Adds specified employees of the Office of the Attorney General, district attorneys, public defenders, police departments and sheriffs offices, the United States Attorney or the Federal Public Defender, state and federal judges and court commissioners to the list of public safety officials whose personal information is protected from disclosure on the Internet.
Chapter 472, Statutes of 2006
AB 2006 (La Malfa-R) Dependent children: arrest of parent or guardian
Authorizes a peace officer, without a warrant, to take into temporary custody any minor in the immediate care and custody of a parent or guardian who is arrested under specified circumstances, including, if the officer has reasonable cause for believing the minor is in immediate danger of physical or sexual abuse, or the physical environment or the fact that the minor will be left unattended poses an immediate threat to the minor's health or safety.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2041 (Nava-D) Public safety
Makes various changes to the membership of the Public Safety Radio Strategic Planning Committee. Double-joints with AB 2116 (Cohn-D).
Chapter 855, Statutes of 2006
AB 2114 (Umberg-D) Counties: booking fees
Reduces the booking fee a county may charge to no more than 45 percent of the actual administrative costs.
(Died in Assembly Local Government Committee)
AB 2133 (Torrico-D) Racial profiling: traffic stops
Creates a state policy of prohibiting racial profiling and provides for required information to be gathered and tracked regarding the specifics of traffic stops.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2135 (Vargas-D) Emergency services: liability
Makes a person who files a false police report liable for the costs of the response.
Chapter 226, Statutes of 2006
AB 2164 (La Suer-R) Local law enforcement
Provides that the supplemental law enforcement services to private individuals, private entities, and private corporations in specified circumstances and subject to certain conditions, may be rendered by Level I reserve peace officers, as defined, if there are no regularly appointed full-time peace officers available to fill the positions as required by the contract.
Chapter 87, Statutes of 2006
AB 2169 (Montanez-D) Public records: confidentiality
Extends the January 1, 2008 repeal date sunset provision for the Address Confidentiality for Victims of Domestic Violence and Stalking program which is administered by the Secretary of State until January 1, 2013. That program, part of the Safe at Home project, allows victims of domestic violence or stalking to use an alternative address on public records to retain their anonymity.
Chapter 475, Statutes of 2006
AB 2183 (Spitzer-R) Peace officer training: physical fitness
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to develop and implement, by July 1, 2007, a set of guidelines for a voluntary physical fitness program for state and local police officers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2237 (Karnette-D) Harbors and ports: security
Requires that the report submitted annually to the Legislature by the Director of the Department of Homeland Security must also include a component pertaining to the protection of the state's harbor and port facilities and the commercial marine transportation sector from terrorist attack.
Chapter 503, Statutes of 2006
AB 2246 (La Suer-R) Local public employees: peace officers
Exempts peace officers employed by a county probation department from provisions authorizing the Public Employment Relations Board to oversee collective bargaining and employee-employer relations for local public employees, as established under the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act.
(Died in Assembly Public Employees, Retirement and Social Security Committee)
AB 2251 (Evans-D) Reproductive health care services: confidentiality
Enacts the Online Privacy for Reproductive Health Services Providers, Employees, Volunteers and Patients Act.
Chapter 486, Statutes of 2006
AB 2300 (Parra-D) Crime Stoppers
Establishes the California Crime Stoppers Program and levies a $3 penalty assessment to fund local crime stoppers programs.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2310 (Torrico-D) Fireworks: local law enforcement
Reduces the penalty for personal use of prohibited fireworks, as defined, from a misdemeanor to an infraction, subject to a citation and a $200 civil penalty, a portion of that penalty to be transferred to the State Fire Marshal for disposal of fireworks and a portion to remain with the local fire protection agency for administrative costs.
Double-jointed with AB 1664 (De La Torre-D).
(Failed passage on Senate Floor)
AB 2345 (Mountjoy-R) Peace officers
States a specified employee of the Department of Motor Vehicles who is a peace officer, as defined, may lose his or her privilege to carry a firearm if he or she suffers a complaint relative to carrying out that firearm.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2505 (Nunez-D) California Information Security Response Team
Creates the California Information Security Response Team consisting of specified state government officials for the purpose of centralizing the state response to information security breaches and computer-related crimes.
(Died on Senate Inactive File)
AB 2543* (Bermudez-D) Board of Directors of Cal Expo and the State Fair
Authorizes the California Exposition and State Fair (Cal Expo) authority to appoint civil service personnel according to state civil service procedures. Authorizes the appointment of certified probation officers, as specified. Makes specified changes to the Cal Expo board of directors and their annual report.
Chapter 825, Statutes of 2006
AB 2552 (Baca-D) Criminal investigation: funding
Appropriates $5.5 million General Fund to the Office of Emergency Services to augment the $9.5 million in the 2005-06 budget for the "War on Methamphetamine."
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2564 (Matthews-D) Health facilities: criminal record clearances
Exempts from the criminal record clearance requirement direct care staff employed as consultants in various intermediate care facilities who have already obtained a criminal record clearance, and authorizes direct care staff, who are trained and certified by a registered nurse acting within the scope of his/her practice, to administer blood glucose testing for a person with developmental disabilities who has diabetes and who is residing in an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled habilitative or an intermediate care facility/developmentally disabled nursing, if specified criteria are met. Double-joints with SB 1759 (Ashburn-R).
Chapter 889, Statutes of 2006
AB 2571 (Levine-D) Traffic cases: law enforcement
Requires the Department of the California Highway Patrol and local law enforcement agencies, under the direction of Judicial Council, to report to the Legislature on recommended improvements to traffic case proceedings.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 2623 (Calderon-D) Police records management: City of Montebello
Appropriates $500,000 General Fund to the City of Montebello to upgrade the Montebello Police Department's Computer-Aided Dispatch and Records Management System.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2646 (Daucher-R) Coroner training: hospice care
Requires the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training to evaluate the need to augment the curriculum in the coroners death investigation course to include death from terminal illness, patients under licensed hospice care, laws relevant to hospice care and services, reporting requirements and procedures relating to hospice licensure, reporting regarding disposition of controlled substances and the types of special circumstances hospice agencies are required to report.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2657 (Bogh-R) Elder and dependent adult abuse
Requires law enforcement agencies, by January 1, 2008, to develop a system for logging all elder abuse or dependent adult abuse calls made to the agency. Requires that all elder abuse or dependent adult abuse calls for assistance be followed up with a written incident report including an elder abuse or dependent adult abuse identification code.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2662 (Frommer-D) Peace officers: probation officers: training
Requires the Corrections Standards Authority to adopt minimum training standards for Los Angeles County probation officers equal to training standards required for deputy sheriffs and city police officers.
(Died in Assembly Appropriation Committee)
AB 2850 (Spitzer-R) DNA testing
Makes changes to statutory provisions created or amended by Proposition 69 in order to conform them to current interpretation and practice.
Chapter 170, Statutes of 2006
AB 2857 (Bass-D) Firefighters: arson investigators
Specifies that all firefighters are peace officers when enforcing laws relating to fire prevention or fire suppression.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 2899 (Saldana-D) Host families: background checks
Requires fingerprint based criminal background checks for all potential host families for international exchange students.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
AB 2940 (Huff-R) School safety: school police officers
Requires a school district to bear the costs of ongoing training of security personnel required by the school district.
(Died in Assembly Education Committee)
AB 2945* (Spitzer-R) Open meetings: multijurisdictional law enforcement agencies
Redesignates a multijurisdictional drug law enforcement agency as a multijurisdictional law enforcement agency, and permits a multijurisdictional law enforcement agency to, instead, hold a closed session to discuss any ongoing criminal investigation of that agency. Defines a multijurisdictional law enforcement agency as a joint powers entity, as specified, that provides law enforcement services for the parties to the joint powers agreement for the purpose of investigating criminal activity involving drugs, gangs, sex crimes, firearms trafficking or felony possession of a firearm, high technology, computer or identity theft, human trafficking or vehicle theft.
Chapter 427, Statutes of 2006
AB 3011 (Benoit-R) Commercial motor vehicles
Conforms state regulation of intrastate and interstate commercial trucks and buses (motor carriers) to the requirements of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and designates the Department of the California Highway patrol to enforce these provisions in California.
Chapter 288, Statutes of 2006
ACR 104 (Chavez-D) West Covina Police Officer Kenneth Wrede Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of Interstate 10 between Vincent Avenue and Grand Avenue in the City of West Covina as the West Covina Police Officer Kenneth Wrede Memorial Highway to honor the memory of Officer Wrede, who was killed in the line of duty on August 31, 1983, in the City of West Covina while responding to a call regarding a suspicious person.
Resolution Chapter 102, Statutes of 2006
ACR 111 (McCarthy-R) CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway Route 5 in Kern County as the CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial highway to honor the memory of Officer Erick S. Manny, who was killed in the line of duty on December 21, 2005, when he was in pursuit of a speeding driver on State Highway Route 5 near the "Grapevine," and lost control of his police car.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
ACR 132 (Cogdill-R) Deputy David P. Grant Memorial Highway
Designates a portion of State Highway 49 in Tuolumne County as the Deputy David P. Grant Memorial Highway, to honor the memory of Deputy David P. Grant, a 15-year veteran, who, while responding to a "plane down" call during the late morning of May 31, 2004, suffered fatal injuries when he swerved to avoid colliding with two other vehicles, left the roadway and struck a tree.
Resolution Chapter 105, Statutes of 2006
ACR 134 (Cogdill-R) CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway
Designates the portion of State Highway Route 99, one mile before and after its intersection with Hammett Road, in the County of Stanislaus, as the California Highway Patrol Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway, to honor the memory of Officer Scott, 36, who, in the early morning hours of February 17, 2006, just two days short of his fifth year anniversary as a highway patrolman, was fatally shot during a traffic stop on State Route 99 outside Ripon.
(Died in Assembly Transportation Committee)
ACR 158 (Pavley-D) DNA Awareness Month
Declares the month of September as DNA Awareness Month.
Resolution Chapter 134, Statutes of 2006
ACR 161 (Nava-D) Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services
Extends the existence of the Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services and Homeland Security until November 30, 2008.
Resolution Chapter 152, Statutes of 2006
HR 28 (Nunez-D) Department of the California Highway Patrol
Expresses the Legislature's condolences and heartfelt sorrow for the tragic losses suffered by the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) family and their loved ones over these recent months, it's sincere gratitude for the critical services that CHP officers provide, and it's appreciation for the continued professionalism and dedication of those officers, even in these difficult times.
Adopted by the Assembly
Family Law
SB 359 (Ortiz-D) Child custody
Requires a court to impose supervised visitation, notwithstanding a stipulation to the contrary by the parties or recommendations by the mediator, when the court has granted visitation to a parent, and has been made aware of evidence of risk to the child indicating that it is necessary to protect the child from risk of harm due to physical or sexual abuse, neglect, substance abuse by a parent or a member of the parent's household, or domestic violence perpetrated by that parent or the risk of abduction by a parent.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 585 (Kehoe-D) Protective orders: firearms
Requires a person subject to a protective order to immediately surrender a firearm and file a receipt relative to the disposition of the firearm with the court. Requires the petitioner for a protective order to list and describe any described firearms possessed by the respondent.
Chapter 467, Statutes of 2006
SB 678 (Ducheny-D) Indian children
Revises and recasts the portions of the Family, Probate, and Welfare and Institutions Codes that address Indian child custody proceedings by codifying into state law various provisions of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act, the Bureau of Indian Affairs Guidelines for State Courts, and state Rules of Court.
Chapter 838, Statutes of 2006
SB 1015* (Murray-D) Dissolution of marriage: financial declarations
Modifies the existing statute designed to shield financial information in divorce and separation cases to address a finding of unconstitutionality made by the appellate court in the recent decision of Burkle v. Burkle (2006) 135 Cal.App.45h 1045.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
SB 1031 (Hollingsworth-R) Dissolution of marriage: family education
Requires parties seeking dissolution of marriage or legal separation to attend four hours of family education if there are children from the marriage.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1228 (Morrow-R) Covenant marriage
Creates a new type of marriage that requires both premarital and pre-dissolution counseling, and allows unequal distribution of community property in cases of spousal abuse, commission of a felony, adultery, abandonment, or long periods of physical separation.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1325 (Scott-D) Adoption
Revises numerous aspects of adoption law including those relating to assisted reproduction, felony convictions of parents, appearance by prospective adoptive parents and presumed father proceedings.
Chapter 806, Statutes of 2006
SB 1364 (Battin-R) Marriage licenses: address information
Allows an applicant or witnesses to a marriage license or certificate of registry to use their mailing address instead of a residential address for verification purposes.
Chapter 60, Statutes of 2006
SB 1393 (Florez-D) Intercountry adoptions
Creates a streamlined adoption process for state residents who finalize an adoption in a foreign country whose adoption standards meet or exceed those in California.
Chapter 809, Statutes of 2006
SB 1482 (Romero-D) Child custody: move-away cases
Creates a statutory presumptive right affecting the burden of proof for a custodial parent to change the residence of the child. Requires a noncustodial parent to make a prima facie showing of the harm the child will suffer as a result of the relocation, which necessitates a change in custody.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1483 (Alquist-D) Child support modification orders
Creates a five county pilot project to expedite the uncontested modification of child support orders upon request by a local child support agency predicated upon each of the County Board of Supervisors adopting a resolution to implement the program.
Chapter 876, Statutes of 2006
SB 1712 (Migden-D) Adoption of hard-to-place children
Creates a pilot program, in San Francisco and Los Angeles Counties, two unnamed counties and one state district adoption office, to encourage the adoption of older foster youth.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1758 (Figueroa-D) Adoption facilitators
Strengthens regulations concerning adoption facilitators, including increasing the surety bond to $25,000, imposes minimum education requirements, Department of Social Services registration, restricts Internet advertisements displaying minor children and authorizes increased civil penalties.
Chapter 754, Statutes of 2006
SB 1820 (Battin-R) Custody and visitation: sex offenders
Prohibits a court from granting custody of, or unsupervised visitation with, a child to a registered sex offender if the victim was a minor, unless the court finds clear and convincing evidence that there is no significant risk to the child and states its reasons, in writing, on the record.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 1 (Morrow-R) Marriage
Places before the voters a proposed constitutional amendment to recognize as valid or recognized in California only a marriage between a man and a woman whether the marriage was contracted in California or elsewhere, and to confer the benefits, rights and responsibilities of a marriage only upon a man and a woman in marriage, and not upon any other union or partnerships. Enactment of SCA 1 will effectively repeal the California Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act of 2003 and prevents any action of the Legislature to reinstate any of those and similar rights without another constitutional amendment.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 19 (Leno-D) Gender-neutral marriage
Seeks to end the state's denial of marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 265 (Haynes-R) Child custody: parents on active military duty
Prohibits a court from modifying an order granting custody of a child if the party who was granted custody of the child is a member of the California National Guard and he or she has been called to active duty, unless the court determines that modifying the order is in the best interest of the child and the party has either died while on active duty or is no longer able to provide adequate care for the child.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 402 (Dymally-D) Collaborative Family Law Act
Enacts the Collaborative Family Law Act which (1) provides for statutory authorization allowing parties to enter into the collaborative process, including a definition of that process, (2) provides for a Judicial Council information sheet for parties involved in child custody and visitation matters, (3) provides for the aforementioned work group, convened by the Senate and the Assembly Judiciary Committees, and (4) requires a court, upon request , to issue a statement of decisions explaining the factual and legal basis for a child's custody determination.
Chapter 496, Statutes of 2006
AB 447 (La Suer-R) Adoption: final hearings
Authorizes the court to waive the requirement that prospective adoptive parents and the child proposed to be adopted appear before the court at the final hearing in which the court makes and enters the order of adoption of the child.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 634 (Lieber-D) International marriage brokers
Requires an international marriage broker to provide basic rights information to a recruit, as defined, in his or her primary language. Requires an international marriage broker to file a $50,000 bond with the Secretary of State for the benefit of any person damaged by any fraud, misstatement, misrepresentation, unlawful act or omission, or failure to provide services.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 667 (Jones-D) Child support enforcement
Requires the Legislative Analyst's Office to contract with an appropriate and qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the child support program and to convene an advisory committee to oversee the review.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
AB 860 (Bass-D) Arrested persons: notice of parental rights
States the intent of the Legislature to require local law enforcement agencies to provide every person who is arrested and has minor children with information about their parental rights and responsibilities, including the process of termination of parental rights.
(Died at the Assembly Desk)
AB 1102 (Hancock-D) Marriage licenses
Revises and requests, operative January 1, 2008, provisions relating to the issuance of marriage licenses. Conforms various statutory provisions of law to those changes. Regulates the issuance of confidential marriage licenses based upon an inability of the parties to appear, as specified, and makes related changes with regard to notaries of public and the State Registrar. Provides that in issuing a duplicate marriage license or confidential marriage license, this bill allows the county clerk to charge any fee to cover the actual costs of issuing that duplicate license, and changes the fee charged notaries public for approval to issue confidential marriage licenses to $300. Double-joints with AB 2051 (Cohn-D).
Chapter 816, Statutes of 2006
AB 1502 (Salinas-D) Family law proceedings: San Benito County
Creates in San Benito County, until January 1, 2010, a pilot project in which a family law court will, in the court's discretion, appoint an attorney and a multidisciplinary team of professionals who shall support the attorney to represent the best interests of a child in family law matters when the custody of the child is in dispute and either one party to the action has accused the other party of domestic violence or of child abuse against the child who is the subject of the custody dispute, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1638 (Nava-D) Adoption of dependent children
Expedites adoptions of foster children in certain circumstances.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1787 (Cohn-D) Emergency protective orders: validity
Clarifies that an emergency protective order is valid only if issued by a judicial officer after making required findings and pursuant to a request by a law enforcement officer.
Chapter 82, Statutes of 2006
AB 1808* (Assembly Budget Committee) Family support: 2006 Budget Act
Allows the Department of Child Support Services to address arrearage problems that were created as a result of the change in the collections accounting from date of collection to date of receipt. Suspends the Child Support Health Insurance Incentive and Improvement Performance Incentive Program and suspends the sunset date for the Child Support Compromise of Arrearages Program until June 20, 2008.
Chapter 75, Statutes of 2006
AB 1926 (DeVore-R) Establishing parentage: embryo adoption
Creates a new class of adoption for embryos by providing that parentage can be established between a child and an "adoptive parent" through proof of transfer of an embryo to a woman pursuant to some sort of written agreement.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2006 (La Malfa-R) Dependent children: arrest of parent or guardian
Authorizes a peace officer, without a warrant, to take into temporary custody any minor in the immediate care and custody of a parent or guardian who is arrested under specified circumstances, including, if the officer has reasonable cause for believing the minor is in immediate danger of physical or sexual abuse, or the physical environment or the fact that the minor will be left unattended poses an immediate threat to the minor's health or safety.
(Died in Assembly Public Safety Committee)
AB 2126 (Lieu-D) Enforcement of judgments
Provides that enforcement of a money judgment or judgment for possession or sale of property under the Family Code will be enforceable until satisfied in full. Additionally, allows a court, in limited civil cases, to enforce orders under the Family Code.
Chapter 86, Statutes of 2006
AB 2130 (DeVore-R) Placement of children: values
Requires a court to consider the religious, cultural, moral and ethic values of the child of his or her birth parents prior to granting a petition of adoption for that child.
(Died in Assembly Human Services Committee)
AB 2139 (Garcia-R) Emergency protective orders
Requires law enforcement officers who respond to an intimate violence situation to tell the victim that they may ask the officer to request an emergency protective order, as specified.
Chapter 479, Statutes of 2006
AB 2302 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil actions and proceedings: interpreter
Provides, commencing July 1, 2007, except as specified, that in any civil action or proceeding, including, but not limited to, any family court proceeding, any proceeding to determine the mental competency of a person, or any court-ordered or court-provided alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, in which a party does not proficiently speak or understand the English language, and that party is present, an interpreter, as provided, must be present to interpret the proceeding in a language the party understands, and to assist communication between the party and his/her attorney.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2440 (Klehs-D) Child support obligations: liability
Imposes liability upon any person or business entity that knowingly, or should have known of a child support obligation, assists a child support obligor who has an unpaid court-ordered child support obligation to avoid, escape, or evade paying the obligation. Provides that the liability will be for three times the value of the assistance provided, such as three times the amount of wages paid to the child support obligor but not reported, but will not exceed the entire child support obligation due.
Chapter 820, Statutes of 2006
AB 2480 (Evans-D) Dependent children: counsel
Requires representation of children in appellate proceedings in dependency cases, as specified, and presumes children over 12 years hold their own evidentiary privileges.
Chapter 385, Statutes of 2006
AB 2488 (Leno-D) Adoption: sibling contact
Lowers the age of consent to disclosure of contact information between adoptees and their siblings from 21 to 18. For those children under 18, this bill allows them to consent to disclosure of their information provided that their adoptive parent, legal parent or guardian consents. Authorizes a court to appoint a confidential intermediary to obtain the consent of an adoptee or their sibling who has not already consented to disclosure.
Chapter 386, Statutes of 2006
AB 2517 (Tran-R) Minor children: visitation rights
Allows a grandparent to petition the court for visitation with their grandchild when the natural or adoptive parents are married, and the grandchild has been adopted by a stepparent.
Chapter 138, Statutes of 2006
AB 2781 (Leno-D) Private child support collectors
Requires private child support collectors to comply with some basic consumer protections to ensure that child support obligees have clear information about the contract they are entering into, have some basic rights to cancel the contract, receive meaningful notice of collections made and the amount of the collections kept by the private agency as its fee, requires private child support collectors to follow the debt collection practices that apply to collectors or other types of consumer debt, and provides remedies when private child support collectors do not comply with these requirements.
Chapter 797, Statutes of 2006
AB 2853 (Salinas-D) Family law counselors
Codifies a current Rule of Court that requires initial and continuing domestic violence education for court counselors, evaluators, investigators and mediators involved in child custody matters.
Chapter 130, Statutes of 2006
ACR 166 (Leno-D) Court Adoption and Permanency Month
Declares November 2006 as Court Adoption and Permanency Month.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
Civil Law
SB 126 (Runner-R) Emergency services: liability
Establishes that any person who is convicted of unlawful flight from a police officer, or who unlawfully flees in willful or wonton disregard for the safety of persons or property, or who causes death or bodily injury during the willful flight from police, and whose actions "proximately cause any incident that results in an emergency response" shall be liable for up to $12,000 per incident for the cost of emergency response by a public agency.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
SB 222 (Runner-R) Privacy: social security numbers
Imposes misdemeanor penalties where a person or entity violates state law protecting the privacy of social security numbers.
(Died in Senate Public Safety Committee)
SB 312 (Ackerman-R) Summary judgment
Authorizes a party to move for summary adjudication of a legal issue or claim for damages, other than punitive damages, that does not completely dispose of a cause of action, an affirmative defense, or an issue of duty according to specified procedures.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 756 (Romero-D) Discrimination: restrictive covenants
Makes changes to procedures to be adhered to relative to filing an application with the Department of Fair Employment and Housing to determine if a covenant violates the fair housing laws.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 768 (Simitian-D) Identity Information Protection Act of 2006
Enacts the Identity Information Protection Act of 2006. Requires the implementation or interim privacy and security measures for government-issued, remotely readable identification documents.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 832 (Perata-D) Punitive damages
Provides, with respect to an action filed after August 16, 2004, that results of a final judgment or settlement that is rendered on or before June 30, 2011, and includes punitive damages, that the punitive damages shall be apportioned according to a specified formula.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 855 (Poochigian-R) Special access: notice of violation and right to care
Imposes pre-litigation procedural requirements upon the filing of any claim under the state's civil rights and equal access to public or housing accommodation laws, including claims of violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act in state-owned facilities.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 937 (Aanestad-R) Liability: obesity claims
Immunizes a manufacturer, distributor, packer, carrier, marketer, advertiser, or seller of food or nonalcoholic beverages intended for human consumption, or an association of one or more of those entities, from liability in any civil action arising out of weight gain, obesity, a related health condition, or any other generally known health condition allegedly caused by or likely to result from the long-term consumption of food or nonalcoholic beverage that results in weight gain or obesity.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 947 (Morrow-R) Construction contracts: indemnity
Provides that any provisions, clauses, covenants, or agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting any construction contract entered into on or after January 1, 2006, for the construction of residential units, as specified, that purport to indemnify the promisee against liability for damages for injury to property, or any other loss, damage, or expense arising from the act or omission of the promisor, shall be limited only to damages, injury, loss, or expense caused by the promisor, or the promisor's subcontractors, agents, or representatives, without regard to any applicable standard of liability, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1030 (Hollingsworth-R) Discrimination: religion
Provides that existing law prohibiting a business establishment from specified discrimination acts are not to be construed to require a business establishment to provide nonessential services to a member of the public, if to do so violates one's conscience due to a sincerely held religious belief.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1099 (Hollingsworth-R) Eminent domain: agricultural property
Provides that eminent domain may not be used to acquire agricultural property, as defined, for a public use unless the condemnor either (1) retains direct ownership of the property for the stated public use, or (2) transfers the property to a private entity for a public use limited to health care facilities, public utilities, and transit facilities, including railroads or other common carriers.
(Failed passage in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1116 (Scott-D) Conservatorships
Revises provisions for a conservator's public or private sale of the personal residence of a conservatee.
Chapter 490, Statutes of 2006
SB 1179 (Morrow-R) Skateboards: liability
Extends, by four years, the existing sunset for the existing legal liability protections for cities, counties and other public agencies that build public skateboard parks.
Chapter 140, Statutes of 2006
SB 1197 (Soto-D) Notice of decedent's death
Requires the Director of the Department of Health Services to file a claim against the decedent's estate, whether in probate or not, within four months of the date the notice of the decedent's death was given.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1210 (Torlakson-D) Eminent domain
Changes certain processes that relate to the existing property by eminent domain. Changes certain laws that relate to redevelopment plans. Requires a finding of continuing "substantial blight" prior to any exercise of eminent domain pursuant to a redevelopment plan longer than 12 years after the adoption of the plan and enacts a new conflict-of-interest prohibition applicable to board members of public entities.
Chapter 594, Statutes of 2006
SB 1211 (Poochigian-R) Estates and trusts: creditors claims
Makes various changes to administering a decedent's estate relative to providing notice to creditors of the decedent.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1259 (McClintock-R) Unclaimed property
Increases the length of time a bank account may be inactive, from three years to seven years, before a financial institution must transfer the account assets to the state. Adjusts comparable time periods for other institutions and assets. Requires institutions to notify the account holders of the imminent transfer.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1272 (Bowen-D) Advance health care directives
Changes the state's Advanced Health Care Directive Registry from a paper-based to an electronic, web-based system.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
SB 1280 (Morrow-R) Legally incapable persons
Enacts the Starvation and Dehydration of Persons with Disabilities Prevention Act.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1307 (Poochigian-R) Confidentiality of medical information
Conforms California law to the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act by allowing a physician to disclose medical information to a health care agent, as specified.
Chapter 249, Statutes of 2006
SB 1311 (Soto-D) Liability waivers
Authorizes and requests the California Law Revision Commission to study and report to the Legislature possible statutory protections that can be enacted to protect an unrepresented tort victim from unknowingly settling or waiving a claim due to miscommunication or misinterpretation of the terms of a settlement, waiver, or liability release where negotiations regarding the settlement, waiver, or liability release are conducted in whole or in part in a language in which the victim is not proficient.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1319 (Cedillo-D) Homeless persons: release from hospitals and jails
Prohibits medical care providers and law enforcement agencies from transporting those in need of homeless support services without first confirming there is adequate space for the person at the shelter and authorizes a civil penalty of $10,000 for each violation.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1406 (Margett-R) Debt collection: notices
Requires a debt collector, when submitting negative information to a consumer credit reporting agency, to verify that the address to which the debt collector sends notice of the negative information is substantially the same as the address associated with the consumer's credit report.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1407 (Margett-R) Liability: hazardous recreational activities
Includes scootering on a push scooter to the list of hazardous activities that a public entity is liable for if injury occurs.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1429 (Morrow-R) Punitive damages: product liability
Provides, in a case involving injury or harm allegedly caused by a product, that the manufacturer, distributor, or seller of the product shall not be guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice if, at the time of manufacture, distribution, or sale, the product, or the aspect, component, warning, or absence of warning contained in or accompanying the product that allegedly caused the injury or harm, was either approved by, or in material compliance with, a statute or the standards, rules, regulations, requirements, or specifications of, a federal or state agency responsible for regulating, evaluating, or approving the product, except as specified.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1441 (Kuehl-D) Discrimination: sexual orientation
Prohibits sexual orientation discrimination by state entities and recipients of state aid.
Chapter 182, Statutes of 2006
SB 1489 (Ducheny-D) Attorney General: civil actions
Repeals existing Section 1021.8 of the Code of Civil Procedure, which provides for the award of expert fees, reasonable attorney's fees and costs in civil actions in which the Attorney General (AG) prevails, and re-enacts that section by revising and recasting its provisions to authorize the court to award the AG all reasonable costs relative to civil actions and prohibits the AG from retaining private counsel on a contingency fee basis, as specified.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1499 (Battin-R) Civil actions: religious preference
Prohibits an award of damages, attorney's fees, or other non-injunctive relief in actions brought under the "establishment clause" or "no preference clause" of the California Constitution to challenge the public display or religious symbols on public lands and other specified locations, except where the action challenges interference with a constitutional or statutory right "by threats, intimidation, or coercion."
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1512 (Machado-D) Privacy: personal information
Changes the threshold for providing substitute notice, from $250,000 to $500,000, relative to substitute notice of a breach of security, if the person or business discloses specified personal information, providing notice will not exceed $250,000.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1524 (Speier-D) Armenian Genocide victims
Provides that any Armenian Genocide victim, or heir or beneficiary, who resides in this state and has a claim arising out of a financial institution's failure to pay or turn over deposited assets, or turn over looted assets, may bring an action or continue a pending action in any court of competent jurisdiction in this state, which court will be deemed the proper forum for that action. Provides that any action under this section will not be dismissed for failure to comply with the applicable statute of limitation, if the action is filed on or before December 31, 2016. Makes certain findings and declarations regarding the persecution between 1915 and 1923 of persons of Armenian ancestry residing in the Ottoman Empire and the difficulties of recovering bank deposits and assets held by banks and other financial institutions.
Chapter 443, Statutes of 2006
SB 1531 (Dunn-D) Change of venue
Makes technical changes to existing law relative to change of venue.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SB 1609 (Simitian-D) Reverse mortgages: annuities
Prohibits a reverse mortgage lender from accepting a reverse mortgage application or assessing any fees until the lender has received a certification from the potential borrower that the borrower received independent counseling regarding the transaction, as specified. Requires the lender to notify the borrower of the counseling requirement. Prohibits a lender from requiring a borrower to purchase an annuity as part of the reverse mortgage transaction. Requires a reverse mortgage contract to be translated into Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Vietnamese, or Korean if the contract was primarily negotiated in one of those languages.
Chapter 202, Statutes of 2006
SB 1636 (Ackerman-R) Trade secrets
Permits the recovery of "costs" by a prevailing party in specified circumstances relating to the litigation of a claim for misappropriation of trade secrets. Defines "costs" to include expert witness fees that are "actually incurred and reasonably necessary," unless the witness is a regular employee of a party.
Chapter 62, Statutes of 2006
SB 1650 (Kehoe-D) Eminent domain
Prohibits a public entity from using a property for any use other than the public use stated in its resolution of necessity, unless the entity first adopts a new resolution that finds the public interest and necessity of using the property for a new state public use. Requires a public entity to adopt a new resolution finding the continued public interest and necessity of using a property for its original stated public use if the property was not put to use within ten years of adoption of the applicable resolution of necessity.
Chapter 602, Statutes of 2006
SB 1716 (Bowen-D) Conservatorships: court investigations
Requires the court to review a conservatorship one year after a conservator is appointed, and biennially thereafter, and at any other time, on its own motion. Requires the investigator's evaluation to include an examination of the conservatee's placement, quality of care he or she is receiving, and the conservatee's finances. Refers to the court investigator ex parte communications between any party or attorney for the party and the court concerning a conservatee or a ward or concerning a fiduciary's performance of his or her duties. Requires the Judicial Council to adopt a rule of court to implement this bill's provisions by July 1, 2008.
Chapter 492, Statutes of 2006
SB 1752 (Migden-D) Unclaimed property
Deposits revenues derived from unclaimed property in a special fund, rather than the General Fund, beginning January 1, 2007.
(Died in Senate Appropriations Committee)
SB 1765 (Escutia-D) Victims of wrongful or coerced repatriation
Provides that a victim of unconstitutional, wrongful, or coerced repatriation, as defined, or the heir or beneficiary of such a victim, who resides in this state, may bring a civil action to recover damages for harm caused by the victim's coerced, forced, or falsely induced emigration in any court of competent jurisdiction, and that any such claim will not be dismissed for failure to comply with applicable statute of limitations, applicable exhaustions of administrative remedies, or applicable governmental tort claims provided the action is commenced on or before December 31, 2016.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1818 (Alarcon-D) Attorney's fees: big box retailers
Establishes that a big box retailer must be ordered to pay attorneys fees and litigation expenses to a local government entity if the retailer acted in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner by bringing an action against the local government entity to challenge the validity or application of an ordinance, rule, regulation, or initiative measure that regulated zoning. Sunsets in 2010.
Vetoed by the Governor
SB 1852 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Maintenance of the codes
Makes numerous technical changes in the California codes that have been recommended by the Legislative Counsel's Office.
Chapter 538, Statutes of 2006
SCA 15 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain
Amends the California Constitution to preclude public entities from taking private property by eminent domain for any "private use." Provides that all takings will be considered a "private use" under the bill, except situations where the property is both owned and occupied by the entity responsible for the condemnation, or another public entity pursuant to an agreement with the condemning entity. Relaxes this occupancy requirement only to permit entities regulated by the Public Utilities Commission to lease the property. Amends the California Constitution to specify that private property may only be taken by eminent domain for a "state public purpose."
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 20 (McClintock-R) Eminent domain
Amends the California Constitution to provide that property may only be taken by eminent domain for a "stated public use," and thereafter only used for that stated use. Provides that property may only be owned and occupied by the condemnor, in perpetuity, unless the property is transferred to another government agency by agreement or leased to an entity regulated by the Public Utilities Commission. Creates a buyback right for a former owner if the property ceases to be used for the original stated use, or if the property is not put to the original stated use within 10 years after its acquisition. Prohibits the use of eminent domain to take property "for purposes of economic development, increasing tax revenue, or for any other private use, nor for maintaining the present use by a different owner."
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
SCA 24 (Torlakson-D) Eminent domain
Amends the California Constitution to declare, relative to eminent domain, that public use does not include the taking of owner-occupied residential property for private use.
(Died in Senate Education Committee)
SCR 15 (Morrow-R) California Law Revision Commission: studies
Authorizes the California Law Revision Commission (CLRC) to (1) continue its study of 21 topics that the Legislature previously authorized or directed the CLRC to study, and (2) study the circumstances under which parties are entitled to oral argument under the Code of Civil Procedure and applicable case law. Requires the CLRC, before commencing work regarding any authorized study topic, to submit a detailed scope of work to the Assembly and Senate Judiciary Committees. (If there is a subsequent major change to the scope, a description of the change must also be provided.)
Resolution Chapter 1, Statutes of 2006
AB 20 (Leslie-R) Disabled persons: access
Precludes commencement of an action for damages against a public facility for a de minimus deviation from a code or regulation that has no significant impact on a disabled person's right to the goods and services provided by the facility, as specified. Provides, instead, that the remedy for a technical violation, as defined, is injunctive relief and the recovery of attorney's fees.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 69 (Harman-R) Multiple-party accounts
Clarifies that the ownership of funds withdrawn from a joint account is determined by the net contributions the parties make to the account. Reverses Lee v. Yang in which the court allowed a withdrawing party to keep the funds withdrawn from a joint account, without regard to the source of the funds.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 192 (Tran-R) Tort Claims Act
Limits the liability of public entities in actions for injury to $250,000 per individual or $500,000 per occurrence.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 355 (Tran-R) Joint or several obligations
Authorizes the court, in any affected action, to instruct the jury on the effect of finding any party, including the state, partially liable.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 528 (Frommer-D) Civil actions: Public Health & Environmental Enforcement Law
Provides that any person with a beneficial interest in the outcome may commence a civil action against any person or the federal government, to the extent it has waived sovereign immunity, to enforce specific laws regarding the protection or enhancement of public health or the environment, except against the State of California or its officers, agencies or any local entity, as defined.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 533 (Negrete McLeod-D) Public works of improvement
Provides that whenever an original contractor's agreement is assigned to a third party, the third party shall be required to provide a payment bond.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 573 (Wolk-D) Design professionals: indemnity and defense
Provides that, for all contracts entered into, on or after January 1, 2007, with a public agency for design professional services, all provisions, clauses, covenants, and agreements contained in, collateral to, or affecting any such contract, and amendments thereto, that purport to indemnify, including the cost to defend, the public agency by a design professional against liability for claims against the public agency, are unenforceable, except for claims that arise out of, pertain to, or relate to the negligence, recklessness, or willful misconduct of the design professional.
Chapter 455, Statutes of 2006
AB 733 (Nation-D) Psychotherapists: duty to warn
Clarifies the existing statute by specifying that two steps, notifying both the potential victim and a law enforcement agency, which a psychotherapist may take to discharge their duty to a potential victim of a patient's communicated serious threat of violence.
Chapter 136, Statutes of 2006
AB 768 (Nation-D) Access to touch-screen devices by visually impaired
Requires, on and after January 1, 2009, a manufacturer or distributor of touch-screen devices used for the purpose of self-service check-in to offer for availability devices that enable visually impaired persons to use a self-service check-in device independently and to process a transaction with the same privacy protection afforded to persons who are not visually impaired.
Chapter 546, Statutes of 2006
AB 915 (Keene-R) Civil actions: time of commencing
Extends, from four years to seven years, the period of time for commencement of various actions.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 928 (Jerome Horton-D) Attorney's fees
Establishes a fixed amount for attorney's fees to be awarded in collection actions on specified contracts.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 1038 (Houston-R) Construction defects
States the Legislature's intention to enact legislation governing the use of indemnification and/or additional-insured provisions in construction contracts with respect to construction defect disputes in order to expedite the fair and efficient resolution of these disputes and to address the availability and cost of liability insurance for builders, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals and others, as well as the cost of housing.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1042 (Harman-R) Pretrial settlement offers
Reduces the interest rate on judgments currently available to plaintiffs whose pretrial offers to settle are rejected by defendants and who subsequently receive more favorable judgments at trial.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1162 (Mullin-D) Eminent domain
Places a temporary moratorium on certain types of condemnations.
(Died in Senate Rules Committee)
AB 1169 (Torrico-D) Real property: rentals
Reenacts a statute that sunsetted on January 1, 2006, requiring the owner of a residential rental property to give at least 60-days notice before terminating a periodic tenancy for a tenant who has resided in the dwelling for one year or more. Modifies the prior statute by specifying that the 60-day notice requirement only applies where every tenant and resident in the dwelling has lived in the dwelling for one year or more. Sunsets on January 1, 2010.
Chapter 842, Statutes of 2006
AB 1176 (Tran-R) Arbitration: legal standards and judicial review
Allows, but does not require, decisions in private arbitration to be supported by law and substantial evidence, and permits a court to vacate the award if it is not supported by substantial evidence or is based on an error of law.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1287 (Evans-D) Health studios
Authorizes a health studio to limit access to persons of a single gender for certain areas where equipment for physical exercise is used or classes for physical exercise instruction are conducted.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1363 (Jones-D) Conservatorships
Enacts the Omnibus Conservatorship and Guardianship Reform Act of 2006, significantly restructuring the courts' review of conservatorships, imposing new duties on court investigators, and requiring the Judicial Council of California to implement a range of rules, forms and notices.
Chapter 493, Statutes of 2006
AB 1397 (Arambula-D) Eminent domain
Requires a local public entity that appropriates electric, gas, or water public utility property to prove a more necessary use by clear and convincing evidence that the public utility has continually failed to comply with governing rules and regulations.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1553 (Evans-D) Arbitration
Tolls the time period for a party to demand or commence arbitration of a controversy pursuant to an arbitration agreement when the party commences a civil action in court based on that controversy. Provides that the tolling will operate from the date the civil action is commenced until 30 days after the court's final determination in the court filing, as specified.
Chapter 266, Statutes of 2006
AB 1700 (Pavley-D) Secrecy agreements: public danger
Regulates the use of secrecy agreements and court orders regarding evidence discovered in litigation tending to show the existence of a public danger.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
AB 1806* (Assembly Budget Committee) Charitable Trusts Registry
General Government Budget Trailer Bill to the 2006 Budget which, among other provisions, allows the use of funds deposited in the Registry of Charitable Trusts Fund for the operation of the Registry of Conservators, Guardians and Trustees.
Chapter 69, Statutes of 2006
AB 1863 (Harman-R) Punitive damages
Provides that on and after July 1, 2007, in any action in which exemplary damages are recoverable for the breach of an obligation not arising from a contract, and where it is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the defendant has been guilty of oppression, fraud, or malice, the trier of fact (i.e., the jury) shall determine whether the defendant is liable for exemplary damages. Requires that, where the trier of fact find liability for exemplary damage, the judge then shall decide, on his or her own, what the amount of punitive damages should be.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1902 (Villines-R) Mechanics' liens
Requires that a decree to release property from a lien include the name of the owner of the property or interest in the property.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 1904 (Tran-R) Escheated funds
Requires that all unclaimed monies escheated to the state from the estates of deceased persons be used for an existing state program to construct or rehabilitate multifamily housing for senior citizens.
(Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee)
AB 1990 (Walters-R) Eminent domain
Prohibits the use of eminent domain if ownership of property will be transferred to a private party or entity.
(Died in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
AB 2008 (Haynes-R) Unlawful detainer: procedure
Provides that the time frame for filing a demurrer or a motion to strike in response to an unlawful detainer notice be made the same as the existing time frame for filing a motion to quash, when the property at issue is not a dwelling unit.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2034 (Spitzer-R) Donative transfers
Requires the California Law Revisions Commission (CLRC) to study the operation and effectiveness of the Probate Code provisions relating to restrictions on donative transfers to "disqualified individuals." Requires the CLRC to report to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2009, its findings and recommendations for revision and improvement of those provisions.
Chapter 215, Statutes of 2006
AB 2042 (Spitzer-R) Trustees: removal
Authorizes removal of a trustee by the court if the trustee is (1) substantially unable to manage the trust's financial resources or is otherwise substantially unable to execute properly the duties of the office, or (2) substantially unable to resist fraud or undue influence, as specified. Provides that these grounds for removal will be in addition to grounds for removal of a trustee under existing law.
Chapter 84, Statutes of 2006
AB 2043 (Assembly Banking And Finance Committee) Debt collection: identity theft
Allows specified business entities that are the victims of identity theft to take advantage of the debt relief protection currently available only to natural persons who are victimized by identity theft.
Chapter 521, Statutes of 2006
AB 2135 (Vargas-D) Emergency services: liability
Makes a person who files a false police report liable for the costs of the response.
Chapter 226, Statutes of 2006
AB 2187 (Liu-D) Livestock: liens
Provides that a lien holder may sell livestock in his or her possession to secure payment for services if the lien holder makes a good faith determination that the value of the livestock is $4,000 and provides adequate notice of intent to sell to the owner.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2258 (Villines-R) Pre-dispute waiver of right to jury
Authorizes pre-dispute jury trial waivers by contract in civil cases.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2267 (Huff-R) Decedents' estates
Increases the size of estates that may be administered outside of the formal probate process.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2302 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Civil actions and proceedings: interpreters
Provides, commencing July 1, 2007, except as specified, that in any civil action or proceeding, including, but not limited to, any family court proceeding, any proceeding to determine the mental competency of a person, or any court-ordered or court-provided alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, in which a party does not proficiently speak or understand the English language, and that party is present, an interpreter, as provided, must be present to interpret the proceeding in a language the party understands, and to assist communication between the party and his/her attorney.
Vetoed by the Governor
AB 2303 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Omnibus bill: civil, commercial and government law
Enacts assorted changes in 32 various provisions of the law. The changes range from modifying and clarifying the mandatory continuing education requirements of paralegals, to revising rules for the Attorney General's regulation of charitable fundraisers, to allowing the Supreme Court to increase the limit of allowable costs for habeas corpus investigations in capital cases.
Chapter 567, Statutes of 2006
AB 2340 (Harman-R) Health care decisions
Requires a health care provider to use reasonable efforts to locate a patient's advance health care directive or to contact a hierarchy of specified individuals, beginning with a spouse or domestic partner, to act as surrogate to make needed health care decisions when the patient is incapacitated.
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 2347 (Harman-R) Trusts: distributions
Provides that, unless otherwise provided by the governing instrument or by court order, distributions made by a trustee to beneficiaries shall be considered paid in the following order: ordinary income, short-term capital gain, long-term capital gain, tax-free income, and principal. Makes numerous related changes to default rules for allocation.
Chapter 569, Statutes of 2006
AB 2369 (La Suer-R) Civil warrants
Specifies that a court may issue a warrant based on failure to appear at a judgment debtor proceeding or at an examination in a civil attachment proceeding under either the existing procedure for issuance of a contempt warrant or a newly established process for issuing failure to appear warrants pursuant to Section 1993 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Chapter 277, Statutes of 2006
AB 2371 (Levine-D) Employment arbitration agreements
Precludes involuntary waiver of civil rights laws in the workplace.
(Failed passage on Assembly Floor)
AB 2455 (Nakanishi-R) Small claims court
Provides, consistent with a recent increase in the small claims court jurisdictional limits from $5,000 to $7,500 for an action brought by a natural person, provides that the small claims court will have jurisdiction in an action brought by a natural person against the Registrar of the Contractors State License Board, as the defendant guarantor holding a contractor's cash deposit, if the amount of the demand does not exceed $7,500,
Chapter 150, Statutes of 2006
AB 2482 (Harman-R) Arbitration: out-of-state attorneys
Revises the rules that allow an out-of-state attorney to represent a party in an arbitration proceeding in this state or to render legal services in this state in connection with an out-of-state arbitration proceeding.
Chapter 357, Statutes of 2006
AB 2545 (Haynes-R) Civil actions: religious symbols
Specifies that the remedy for civil actions challenging the constitutionality of a public religious display be limited to injunctive relief.
(Failed passage in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2568 (Harman-R) Wills: personal property
Permits a testator to make a valid testamentary disposition, after executing a will, through documents or other writings (but not a codicil or a new will) that were not in existence at the time of execution of the will. Applies only to tangible personal property of the testator, as defined.
Chapter 280, Statutes of 2006
AB 2618 (Berg-D) Small claims court
Updates various code sections that provide for small claims court jurisdiction in specified circumstances to conform to the new small claims court jurisdiction section, which provides that, in addition to the jurisdiction conferred by Section 116.220 of the Code of Civil Procedure ($5,000), the small claims court has jurisdiction in an action brought by a natural person, if the amount of the demand, except as specified, does not exceed $7,500.
Chapter 167, Statutes of 2006
AB 2655 (Plescia-R) Construction defects: waterproofing system
Sets forth standards governing shower and bath waterproofing systems, rather than shower and bath enclosures, and the waterproofing system behind or under ceramic tile, as specified.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2767 (Canciamilla-D) Waiver of jury trial
Provides that a party may waive trial by jury in a civil case by, at any time, entering into a written contract, agreement, undertaking, or commitment in which the party waives the right to a trial by jury, unless the party is a consumer, as defined.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 2864 (Harman-R) Civil actions: time of commencement
Applies the general Code of Civil Procedure rules for computing time under the code to existing statutes of limitations for filing a lawsuit against a decedent.
Chapter 221, Statutes of 2006
AB 2875 (Pavley-D) Confidential settlement agreements
Prohibits a confidential settlement agreement in any civil action "the factual foundation for which establishes a cause of action for civil damages for act that may be prosecuted as a felony sex offense." Provides that the bill will not affect the ability of the parties to agree to keep confidential the victim's medical information or personal identifying information and to keep confidential the amount paid in the settlement claim.
Chapter 151, Statutes of 2006
AB 3043 (Houston-R) Construction defect litigation
Revises the existing pre-litigation process for identification and resolution of alleged residential construction defects.
(Died in Assembly Judiciary Committee)
AB 3049 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Waiver of jury trial
Makes non-substantive changes to the Code of Civil Procedure and provides that a party may waive trial as specified in Code of Civil Procedure Section 631(d).
(Died in Senate Judiciary Committee)
AB 3050 (Assembly Judiciary Committee) Flood damage: liability
Provides that liability for property damage or personal injury due to the failure of a flood control project shall be shared jointly among the state and local agencies that are responsible for the failure and subsequent damages.
(Died on Assembly Inactive File)
A similar bill was AB 1220 (Jones-D) which died in Senate Rules Committee.
ACA 22 (La Malfa-R) Eminent domain
Amends the California Constitution to limit the instances when the state or local government may use eminent domain authority.
(Failed passage in Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee)
| Bill | Author and Bill Title | Reference Links |
|---|---|---|
| SB 3 |
Torlakson-D Double fine zones |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 10 |
Dunn-D Trial court facilities |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 34* |
Florez-D Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 56 |
Dunn-D Trial court judges and officers |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 59 |
Lowenthal-D Mandatory reporting of theft of handguns |
Weapons |
| SB 75 |
Dunn-D Budget Act of 2005: contingencies and emergencies |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 93 |
Florez-D Local government finance: Tulare County |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 95 |
Murray-D Vehicles: ignition interlock device |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 96* |
Murray-D Peer-to-peer networks: file sharing software |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 126 |
Runner-R Emergency services: liability |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Civil Law |
| SB 129 |
Margett-R Biological evidence: storage |
Sex Offenders Procedural |
| SB 152 |
Speier-D Pseudoephedrine |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 171 |
Alquist-D Interrogation: recording |
Procedural |
| SB 176 |
Denham-R Traffic collision: fatality: testing |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 185 |
Battin-R Inmate labor assignments |
Corrections |
| SB 212 |
Lowenthal-D Lapses of consciousness: reports to Dept. of Motor Vehicles |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 222 |
Runner-R Privacy: social security numbers |
Other Crimes and Sentencing Civil Law |
| SB 235 |
Denham-R HIV exposure through unprotected sexual activity |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 252 |
Ackerman-R Jurors: payment |
Juries |
| SB 262 |
Dunn-D State Bar of California: audit |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 294 |
Morrow-R Habeas corpus |
Death Penalty |
| SB 305 |
Morrow-R Exemption from firearm's 10 day waiting period |
Weapons |
| SB 307 |
Simitian-D Dextromethorphan: sale to minors |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 312 |
Ackerman-R Summary judgment |
Civil Law |
| SB 328 |
Cedillo-D Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 346 |
Battin-R Child identity theft |
Identity Theft Juvenile Justice |
| SB 359 |
Ortiz-D Child custody |
Child Abuse Family Law |
| SB 366 |
Kuehl-D Department of Corrections: families: female offenders |
Corrections |
| SB 388 |
Poochigian-R Gun violence public education program |
Weapons |
| SB 391 |
Poochigian-R Gang crime: enhancements |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 395 |
Escutia-D California Court Facilities Bond Act of 2006 |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 434 |
Simitian-D False reporting |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 448 |
Poochigian-R Sex crimes on a child |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 449 |
Denham-R Crimes |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 450 |
Poochigian-R Appeals: fugitive defendants |
Procedural |
| SB 466 |
Kuehl-D Mobile photo radar enforcement system |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 478 |
Alquist-D Obscene matter |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 480 |
Denham-R Inmate labor: Central Coast Veterans Cemetery |
Corrections |
| SB 506 |
Poochigian-R Public officials and homeland security |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Law Enforcement |
| SB 520 |
Ashburn-R Juvenile crime |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 532 |
Torlakson-D BB devices |
Weapons |
| SB 544 |
Battin-R Sex offenders: custody and visitation |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 556* |
Migden-D Drug treatment |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 585 |
Kehoe-D Protective orders: firearms |
Weapons Family Law |
| SB 588* |
Runner-R The Sexual Predator Punishment & Control Act: Jessica's Law |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 591 |
Cedillo-D Impounding vehicles |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 598 |
Torlakson-D Leaving the scene of an accident |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 603 |
Ortiz-D Law enforcement: anti-reproductive rights crimes |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 609 |
Romero-D Juvenile justice reform |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 613 |
Denham-R Contacting minors: sex offenses |
Child Abuse Sex Offenders |
| SB 617 |
Speier-D Women prisoners |
Corrections |
| SB 620 |
Speier-D Prisons: random drug testing |
Corrections |
| SB 622 |
Speier-D Correctional facilities: educational programs |
Corrections |
| SB 629 |
Dutton-R Vehicle drivers license: registered sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 660 |
Kuehl-D Public school students: questioning |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 678 |
Ducheny-D Indian children |
Juvenile Justice Family Law |
| SB 692 |
Morrow-R Undocumented workers |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 722* |
Denham-R Lewd conduct offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 751 |
Morrow-R Human trafficking |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 756 |
Romero-D Discrimination: restrictive covenants |
Civil Law |
| SB 768 |
Simitian-D Identity Information Protection Act of 2006 |
Identity Theft Civil Law |
| SB 779 |
Escutia-D Peace officers: complaints: discovery |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 795 |
Romero-D Division of Juvenile Justice |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 797 |
Romero-D Possession of not more than 28.5 grams of marijuana |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 803* |
Ducheny-D Ongoing Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2005 |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 806 |
Speier-D Provisional licensing program |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 807 |
Simitian-D Evidence: communications |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 814 |
Romero-D Prisons: segregation |
Corrections |
| SB 817 |
Ashburn-R Murder: special circumstances |
Death Penalty |
| SB 823 |
Margett-R Provisional licensing program: speed contest |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 827 |
Maldonado-R County trial costs: state reimbursement |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 832 |
Perata-D Punitive damages |
Civil Law |
| SB 839 |
Poochigian-R Identity theft: penalties |
Identity Theft |
| SB 852 |
Bowen-D Identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| SB 855 |
Poochigian-R Special access: notice of violation and right to care |
Civil Law |
| SB 864 |
Poochigian-R Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 865 |
Poochigian-R Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 896* |
Runner-R Inmates: health care services |
Corrections |
| SB 898 |
Poochigian-R Weapons in state buildings |
Weapons |
| SB 901* |
Denham-R Prisons |
Corrections |
| SB 927 |
Lowenthal-D Ports: congestion relief: security enhancement |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 934 |
Vincent-D Dogs and cats: spay or neuter agreement: penalties |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 936 |
Maldonado-R Homicide |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 937 |
Aanestad-R Liability: obesity claims |
Civil Law |
| SB 939 |
Runner-R Retired Level I and II Reserve Peace Officers |
Weapons |
| SB 946 |
Florez-D Community correctional facilities |
Corrections |
| SB 947 |
Morrow-R Construction contracts: indemnity |
Civil Law |
| SB 968 |
Torlakson-D Domestic violence: Contra Costa County |
Domestic Violence |
| SB 971 |
Poochigian-R Assault: school employees |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 988 |
Migden-D Safety Awareness Zones: Golden Gate Bridge |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1005* |
Florez-D Property tax exemption |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1014* |
Alquist-D Trial costs: Peterson case |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1015* |
Murray-D Dissolution of marriage: financial declarations |
Family Law |
| SB 1021 |
Bowen-D Infractions: bodily injury or great bodily injury |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1030 |
Hollingsworth-R Discrimination: religion |
Civil Law |
| SB 1031 |
Hollingsworth-R Dissolution of marriage: family education |
Family Law |
| SB 1034 |
Hollingsworth-R Community care facilities: wards of the juvenile court |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1038 |
Hollingsworth-R Firearms |
Weapons |
| SB 1044 |
Hollingsworth-R Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1045 |
Hollingsworth-R Sex offender registration |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1051 |
Hollingsworth-R Juvenile sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1062 |
Bowen-D Victims of crime: domestic violence and sexual assault |
Domestic Violence Victims of Crime |
| SB 1074 |
Hollingsworth-R High-risk sex offenders |
Sex Offenders Corrections |
| SB 1098 |
Hollingsworth-R Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1099 |
Hollingsworth-R Eminent domain: agricultural property |
Civil Law |
| SB 1116 |
Scott-D Conservatorships |
Civil Law |
| SB 1119 |
Migden-D Reprieves, pardons and commutations of sentences |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1128* |
Alquist-D Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1134* |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Appropriation for Court Order |
Corrections |
| SB 1137* |
Ducheny-D Budget Act of 2006: trailer bill: Proposition 36 reforms |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1154 |
Senate Budget And Fiscal Review Committee Budget deficiencies: Corrections |
Corrections |
| SB 1178* |
Speier-D Sex offenders: electronic monitoring |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1179 |
Morrow-R Skateboards: liability |
Civil Law |
| SB 1182 |
Battin-R Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1184 |
Cedillo-D Attempted murder: nonsworn uniformed employees |
Other Crimes and Sentencing Law Enforcement |
| SB 1187 |
Ackerman-R Judges' retirement |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1192 |
Hollingsworth-R Firearms: study |
Weapons |
| SB 1197 |
Soto-D Notice of decedent's death |
Civil Law |
| SB 1210 |
Torlakson-D Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| SB 1211 |
Poochigian-R Estates and trusts: creditors claims |
Civil Law |
| SB 1222 |
Ackerman-R Street gang laws: firearm offenses |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1228 |
Morrow-R Covenant marriage |
Family Law |
| SB 1238 |
Battin-R Child pornography |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1239 |
Hollingsworth-R Firearms: transactions |
Weapons |
| SB 1240* |
Hollingsworth-R SAFE teams |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1241 |
Cox-R Deputy sheriffs: state citizenship |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1247 |
Runner-R Fingerprinting: certification |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1257 |
Morrow-R Criminal procedure: appeals: capital cases |
Procedural |
| SB 1259 |
McClintock-R Unclaimed property |
Civil Law |
| SB 1261 |
McClintock-R Criminal justice statistics |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1262 |
Denham-R Vehicle theft: denial of probation |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1272 |
Bowen-D Advance health care directives |
Civil Law |
| SB 1280 |
Morrow-R Legally incapable persons |
Civil Law |
| SB 1281 |
Romero-D Public contracts: jury service pay |
Juries |
| SB 1295 |
Soto-D Criminal procedure |
Procedural |
| SB 1297 |
Battin-R Soliciting minors to engage in sexual activity |
Child Abuse Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1299 |
Speier-D Chemicals used to manufacture methamphetamine or PCP |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1307 |
Poochigian-R Confidentiality of medical information |
Civil Law |
| SB 1308* |
Battin-R Bribery |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1311 |
Soto-D Liability waivers |
Civil Law |
| SB 1313* |
Denham-R Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1318 |
Cedillo-D Sales near rehabilitation or homeless shelters |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1319 |
Cedillo-D Homeless persons: release from hospitals and jails |
Corrections Law Enforcement Civil Law |
| SB 1320 |
Cedillo-D Probation: Los Angeles County |
Corrections |
| SB 1321 |
Cedillo-D Criminal procedure: release from custody in jail |
Procedural Corrections |
| SB 1325 |
Scott-D Adoption |
Family Law |
| SB 1328 |
Denham-R Exclusion of witnesses |
Victims of Crime |
| SB 1336 |
Cedillo-D Remote stun guns |
Weapons |
| SB 1346 |
Ortiz-D Disposition reports of criminal cases |
Procedural |
| SB 1348 |
Battin-R Voter registration: paid circulators |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1349 |
Soto-D Cockfighting |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1364 |
Battin-R Marriage licenses: address information |
Family Law |
| SB 1366 |
Aanestad-R Controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1372 |
Maldonado-R Mentally disordered offenders: reimbursement of county costs |
Corrections |
| SB 1373 |
Romero-D Division of Juvenile Justice |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1375 |
Lowenthal-D Courts: replacement of deficient facilities |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1382 |
Morrow-R Conditions of parole |
Corrections |
| SB 1386 |
Morrow-R Civil procedure: trial waivers |
Procedural Juries |
| SB 1387 |
Poochigian-R Personal identifying information |
Identity Theft |
| SB 1388 |
Poochigian-R Phishing |
Identity Theft |
| SB 1389 |
Poochigian-R False personation |
Identity Theft |
| SB 1390 |
Poochigian-R Crime statistics |
Identity Theft |
| SB 1391 |
Margett-R Postconviction discovery |
Procedural |
| SB 1392 |
Florez-D Registered sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1393 |
Florez-D Intercountry adoptions |
Family Law |
| SB 1402 |
Kuehl-D Spousal rape |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1404 |
Machado-D Parking violations: street cleaning |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1406 |
Margett-R Debt collection: notices |
Civil Law |
| SB 1407 |
Margett-R Liability: hazardous recreational activities |
Civil Law |
| SB 1408 |
Cedillo-D Police: notice of recovered vehicle |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1410 |
Dutton-R Trespass: denial of access |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1420 |
Runner-R Probation: officers: funding |
Corrections |
| SB 1422 |
Margett-R Penal Code Omnibus Bill |
Controlled Substances Weapons |
| SB 1429 |
Morrow-R Punitive damages: product liability |
Civil Law |
| SB 1441 |
Kuehl-D Discrimination: sexual orientation |
Civil Law |
| SB 1444 |
Escutia-D Prisoners: foreign nationals |
Corrections |
| SB 1453 |
Speier-D Paroles: aftercare drug programs |
Corrections |
| SB 1454 |
Torlakson-D Hazing: Matt's Law |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1455 |
Hollingsworth-R Impersonating a peace officer |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1458 |
Simitian-D Illegal drug labs |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1460* |
Cox-R Community colleges: inmate education programs |
Corrections |
| SB 1469 |
Cedillo-D Medi-Cal: eligibility: juvenile offenders |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1482 |
Romero-D Child custody: move-away cases |
Family Law |
| SB 1483 |
Alquist-D Child support modification orders |
Family Law |
| SB 1484 |
Hollingsworth-R Sex offenders: parolee placement |
Corrections |
| SB 1485 |
Hollingsworth-R Protected animals |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1489 |
Ducheny-D Attorney General: civil actions |
Civil Law |
| SB 1491 |
Kuehl-D Domestic violence: personal information |
Domestic Violence |
| SB 1495 |
Battin-R Identity theft where the victim is a minor |
Identity Theft |
| SB 1499 |
Battin-R Civil actions: religious preference |
Civil Law |
| SB 1500 |
Speier-D Drug programs |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1502 |
Hollingsworth-R Sex offenders: group homes |
Sex Offenders |
| SB 1503 |
Poochigian-R Vehicle theft |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1512 |
Machado-D Privacy: personal information |
Civil Law |
| SB 1521 |
Romero-D Prisons: media access |
Corrections |
| SB 1524 |
Speier-D Armenian Genocide victims |
Civil Law |
| SB 1531 |
Dunn-D Change of venue |
Civil Law |
| SB 1536* |
Cox-R Surplus state property: City of Folsom |
Corrections |
| SB 1538 |
Scott-D Firearm registration |
Weapons |
| SB 1544 |
Migden-D Criminal investigations: eyewitness identification: lineups |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1545 |
Poochigian-R Firearms |
Weapons |
| SB 1547 |
Romero-D Inmate population |
Corrections |
| SB 1558 |
Morrow-R Habeas corpus |
Death Penalty |
| SB 1562 |
Maldonado-R Inmates: state hospitals: reimbursement of costs |
Corrections |
| SB 1568 |
Dunn-D Unaccredited and correspondence law schools |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1578 |
Lowenthal-D Tethering prohibition |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1589 |
Romero-D Division of Juvenile Justice: specialized program |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1593 |
Runner-R Vehicles: removal: private property |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1595 |
Machado-D Juvenile facilities |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1599 |
Ducheny-D Domestic violence prevention: funding |
Domestic Violence |
| SB 1602 |
Battin-R Scalping tickets |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1609 |
Simitian-D Reverse mortgages: annuities |
Civil Law |
| SB 1613 |
Simitian-D Vehicles: wireless telephones |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1616 |
Kuehl-D Juveniles: incarceration: Medi-Cal: SSI: SSDI |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1626 |
Ashburn-R Juvenile justice: deferred entry of judgment |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1631 |
Romero-D Use of force investigation: release of peace officer names |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1635 |
Poochigian-R Inmates: work credits |
Corrections |
| SB 1636 |
Ackerman-R Trade secrets |
Civil Law |
| SB 1642 |
Romero-D Three Strikes Law |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1650 |
Kehoe-D Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| SB 1664 |
Poochigian-R Sentencing: repeat illegal aliens |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1666 |
Bowen-D Personal information |
Identity Theft |
| SB 1667 |
Kuehl-D Dependent children |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1668 |
Bowen-D Child death: review teams |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1696 |
Dunn-D Los Angeles County Superior Court: employees |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SB 1712 |
Migden-D Adoption of hard-to-place children |
Family Law |
| SB 1714 |
Margett-R Interception of communications |
Procedural |
| SB 1716 |
Bowen-D Conservatorships: court investigations |
Civil Law |
| SB 1722 |
Cox-R Community correctional facilities |
Corrections |
| SB 1734 |
Cox-R Prison Industry Authority: dairy products |
Corrections |
| SB 1735 |
Cox-R Vehicles: police pursuits |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1742 |
Machado-D Juvenile justice |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1743 |
Bowen-D Change of name: sexual assault victim |
Sex Offenders Victims of Crime |
| SB 1745 |
Kuehl-D Employment discrimination: victims of violence |
Domestic Violence Victims of Crime |
| SB 1749 |
Migden-D Transit fare evasion |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1752 |
Migden-D Unclaimed property |
Civil Law |
| SB 1756 |
Migden-D Driving under the influence |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| SB 1757 |
Ortiz-D FPPC investigators: peace officer status |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1758 |
Figueroa-D Adoption facilitators |
Family Law |
| SB 1759 |
Ashburn-R Health: background checks |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1761 |
Poochigian-R Victim services |
Victims of Crime |
| SB 1765 |
Escutia-D Victims of wrongful or coerced repatriation |
Victims of Crime Civil Law |
| SB 1767 |
Hollingsworth-R Local law enforcement: immigration laws |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1777 |
Alarcon-D Juvenile court schools |
Juvenile Justice |
| SB 1806 |
Figueroa-D Animals: abuse |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SB 1808 |
Aanestad-R Physicians and surgeons: executions |
Death Penalty |
| SB 1813 |
Runner-R Unlawful detainer: controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| SB 1815 |
Romero-D Workers' compensation: peace officers |
Law Enforcement |
| SB 1818 |
Alarcon-D Attorney's fees: big box retailers |
Civil Law |
| SB 1820 |
Battin-R Custody and visitation: sex offenders |
Sex Offenders Family Law |
| SB 1830 |
Margett-R Inmate medical records |
Corrections |
| SB 1831 |
Margett-R Inmates: loss of work credits |
Corrections |
| SB 1852 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Maintenance of the codes |
Civil Law |
| SCA 1 |
Morrow-R Marriage |
Family Law |
| SCA 15 |
McClintock-R Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| SCA 16 |
Runner-R Judicial districts |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SCA 20 |
McClintock-R Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| SCA 24 |
Torlakson-D Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| SCA 27 |
Hollingsworth-R The California Supreme Court |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| SCA 29 |
Morrow-R California Port Security Enhancement Act |
Law Enforcement |
| SCR 7 |
Denham-R Officer Stephan Gene Gray Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| SCR 15 |
Morrow-R California Law Revision Commission: studies |
Civil Law |
| SCR 20 |
Soto-D CHP Officer Thomas J. Steiner Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| SCR 67 |
Speier-D Shaken Baby Syndrome Awareness Week |
Child Abuse |
| SCR 79 |
Alquist-D Crime Victims Rights Week |
Victims of Crime |
| SCR 93 |
Runner-R Memorial highway |
Law Enforcement |
| SCR 95 |
Soto-D Officer Richard Hyche Memorial Freeway |
Law Enforcement |
| SCR 96 |
Ortiz-D Deputy Sheriff Sandra Powell-Larson Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| SCR 97 |
Battin-R Child Abuse Prevention Month |
Child Abuse |
| SCR 109 |
Romero-D Denim Day California |
Sex Offenders |
| SJR 26 |
Morrow-R Port security |
Law Enforcement |
| SJR 33 |
Simitian-D Elder Abuse Awareness Stamp |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| SR 25 |
Perata-D Department of the California Highway Patrol |
Law Enforcement |
| SR 28 |
Romero-D Innocence Project |
Law Enforcement |
| SR 32 |
Cox-R Probation, Parole and Community Supervision Week |
Corrections |
| SB 8XX |
Bowen-D Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation |
Corrections |
| SB 9XX |
Speier-D Corrections: community facility beds: female inmates |
Corrections |
| SB 10XX* |
Machado-D Prisons: additional capacity: financing |
Corrections |
| SB 11XX* |
Machado-D Parolees: reentry |
Corrections |
| SB 12XX |
Machado-D Voluntary transfer of inmates to out-of-state facilities |
Corrections |
| AB 4 |
Bogh-R DUI: permanent revocation of driver's license |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 19 |
Leno-D Gender-neutral marriage |
Family Law |
| AB 20 |
Leslie-R Disabled persons: access |
Civil Law |
| AB 44 |
Cohn-D Destruction of wireless communication device |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 46 |
Walters-R Ecstasy (MDMA, XTC) |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 50* |
Leno-D Victim compensation trauma services |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 59 |
Cohn-D Domestic violence: presence of minors |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 64 |
Cohn-D Recording crimes |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 69 |
Harman-R Multiple-party accounts |
Civil Law |
| AB 96 |
Cohn-D High-risk sex offender parolees: global tracking |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 98 |
Cohn-D Firearms |
Weapons |
| AB 101 |
Cohn-D Remote stun guns |
Weapons |
| AB 104 |
Bass-D Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 105 |
Cohn-D Victims compensation fund: relocation |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 106 |
Cohn-D Spousal battery: fines: amnesty |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 108 |
Houston-R Attorneys: advertising |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 125 |
Dymally-D Cocaine |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 157 |
Levine-D Tasers |
Weapons |
| AB 161 |
Vargas-D Prisoners: clergy |
Corrections |
| AB 167 |
Cohn-D Annoying electronic communications |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 183* |
Cogdill-R Conservation camps: Madera County |
Corrections |
| AB 192 |
Tran-R Tort Claims Act |
Civil Law |
| AB 210 |
Vargas-D Sex offenses |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 211 |
Cohn-D Sexual offender treatment: minors |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 233 |
Haynes-R CalWORKs: eligibility disqualification |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 242 |
Vargas-D Sex offenses: medical providers: minors |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 246 |
Walters-R Statute of limitations: accessory to a felony |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 250 |
Matthews-D Merced County: homicide trial costs |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 253 |
Aghazarian-R Child abuse |
Child Abuse |
| AB 262 |
Berg-D Courts: transfer of county facilities |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 265 |
Haynes-R Child custody: parents on active military duty |
Family Law |
| AB 272* |
Parra-D Peace officers: custodial officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 283 |
Koretz-D Factual innocence |
Procedural |
| AB 314 |
Parra-D Department of the Youth Authority |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 335 |
Walters-R Crime: bail |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 336 |
Huff-R Controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 352 |
Koretz-D Semiautomatic firearms: microstamping |
Weapons |
| AB 355 |
Tran-R Joint or several obligations |
Civil Law |
| AB 373 |
Bermudez-D Law enforcement officer safety |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 402 |
Dymally-D Collaborative Family Law Act |
Family Law |
| AB 406 |
Haynes-R Driving under the influence: distinctive DUI license plates |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 418 |
Koretz-D Animal cruelty: ear cropping |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 421 |
Spitzer-R Distribution of personal information |
Identity Theft |
| AB 424* |
Calderon-D Identity theft: definition |
Identity Theft |
| AB 425 |
Negrete McLeod-D Organized retail crime |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 427 |
La Malfa-R Workers' compensation: local inmates |
Corrections |
| AB 438 |
Parra-D Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 440 |
Matthews-D Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 447 |
La Suer-R Adoption: final hearings |
Family Law |
| AB 448 |
La Suer-R Assault weapons |
Weapons |
| AB 456 |
Torrico-D Public employees: retirement: fraud |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 458 |
Jerome Horton-D Probation: criminal street gang activity: City of Inglewood |
Corrections |
| AB 470 |
Yee-D Medi-Cal: juveniles: incarceration |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 484 |
Benoit-R Elder and dependent adults: identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 505 |
Leno-D Prisoners |
Corrections |
| AB 506 |
Montanez-D Teen dating violence |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 507 |
Daucher-R Criminal history checks: health studio child care providers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 525 |
Chu-D Mandatory Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act |
Child Abuse |
| AB 528 |
Frommer-D Civil actions: Public Health & Environmental Enforcement Law |
Civil Law |
| AB 533 |
Negrete McLeod-D Public works of improvement |
Civil Law |
| AB 542 |
Huff-R Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 543 |
Houston-R Contra Costa County prisoner education pilot program |
Corrections |
| AB 545 |
Garcia-R Correctional peace officers |
Corrections |
| AB 570 |
Villines-R Vehicles: fleeing a peace officer |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 573 |
Wolk-D Design professionals: indemnity and defense |
Civil Law |
| AB 618 |
Cogdill-R Financial fraud: law enforcement |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 631 |
Leno-D Narcotic treatment programs: mobile service units |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 634 |
Lieber-D International marriage brokers |
Family Law |
| AB 658 |
Liu-D Women inmates |
Corrections |
| AB 667 |
Jones-D Child support enforcement |
Family Law |
| AB 733 |
Nation-D Psychotherapists: duty to warn |
Civil Law |
| AB 734 |
Dymally-D Endangered species: crime |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 743 |
Strickland-R Minors: rape |
Child Abuse Sex Offenders |
| AB 750 |
Mullin-D Criminal trial costs: San Mateo County |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 753 |
Gordon-D Driving under the influence |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 763 |
Tran-R Juvenile justice coordinating councils |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 768 |
Nation-D Access to touch-screen devices by visually impaired |
Civil Law |
| AB 786 |
Ruskin-D Identity theft: California State University employees |
Identity Theft |
| AB 789 |
Lieber-D Domestic violence |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 804 |
La Suer-R Department of the California Highway Patrol: freeway signs |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 806 |
La Suer-R Fines and fees: high technology crimes |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 809 |
La Suer-R Victim notification |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 812 |
Matthews-D Standardized background checks |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 814 |
Cogdill-R Firearms: peace officers: concealed weapons |
Weapons Law Enforcement |
| AB 821 |
Ridley-Thomas-D Voting rights |
Corrections |
| AB 828 |
Cohn-D Criminal proceedings: reports |
Procedural |
| AB 851 |
Koretz-D Wrongly convicted persons |
Procedural |
| AB 860 |
Bass-D Arrested persons: notice of parental rights |
Family Law |
| AB 863 |
Bass-D Child Welfare Council |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 878 |
Chavez-D Felonies: profits |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 915 |
Keene-R Civil actions: time of commencing |
Civil Law |
| AB 916 |
Canciamilla-D Elder abuse |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 928 |
Jerome Horton-D Attorney's fees |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| AB 944 |
Ridley-Thomas-D Required warning: "Danger of firearms in Homes" |
Weapons |
| AB 946 |
Wyland-R Identify theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 963 |
Garcia-R Provisional driver's license: cellular telephone restriction |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 971 |
Jerome Horton-D Corrections: superintendents |
Corrections |
| AB 1000 |
Sharon Runner-R Vehicular manslaughter |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1015* |
Chu-D Sex Offender Management Board |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1022 |
Walters-R Bad checks: diversion program |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1023 |
Walters-R Child exploitation |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1035 |
Spitzer-R Public officials: Internet posting of home information |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1038 |
Houston-R Construction defects |
Civil Law |
| AB 1042 |
Harman-R Pretrial settlement offers |
Civil Law |
| AB 1079 |
Sharon Runner-R Department of Developmental Services: criminal histories |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1080 |
Sharon Runner-R Department of the Youth Authority: sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1102 |
Hancock-D Marriage licenses |
Family Law |
| AB 1106 |
Strickland-R Crimes |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1120* |
Benoit-R Persons evaluated under the Sexually Violent Predator Act |
Sex Offenders Corrections |
| AB 1121 |
Koretz-D Sentencing |
Death Penalty |
| AB 1129* |
Mountjoy-R Judicial elections |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1133 |
Harman-R Evidentiary privileges |
Procedural |
| AB 1138 |
Dymally-D PERS: CHP officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1147 |
Leno-D Industrial hemp |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 1148 |
Nakanishi-R Vehicles: ice cream trucks |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1152 |
La Suer-R Global positioning system device |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1153 |
La Suer-R Improper contact with children |
Child Abuse Sex Offenders |
| AB 1160 |
Lieber-D Crime |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1162 |
Mullin-D Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| AB 1169 |
Torrico-D Real property: rentals |
Civil Law |
| AB 1176 |
Tran-R Arbitration: legal standards and judicial review |
Civil Law |
| AB 1198 |
Mullin-D Juvenile court records: County of San Mateo |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1237 |
Leno-D Tasers |
Weapons Law Enforcement |
| AB 1256 |
Bermudez-D Three Strikes Law |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1257 |
Umberg-D Child pornography crimes |
Child Abuse Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1267 |
Leslie-R Corrections Standards Authority |
Juvenile Justice Corrections |
| AB 1287 |
Evans-D Health studios |
Civil Law |
| AB 1289 |
Jerome Horton-D Peace officers: state hospital police |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1293 |
Oropeza-D Shorthand reporters: Transcript Reimbursement Fund |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1294 |
Umberg-D Investigative subpoenas: violent felonies |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1333 |
Frommer-D Grease waste haulers |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1363 |
Jones-D Conservatorships |
Civil Law |
| AB 1368 |
Umberg-D Workers' compensation: public safety members |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1389 |
Oropeza-D Littering: cigarette butts |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1397 |
Arambula-D Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| AB 1422 |
Bogh-R Long-term health care facilities: sexual offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1427 |
Mountjoy-R Abortions: minors |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1446 |
Karnette-D Crime |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1447 |
Garcia-R Provisional driver's licenses: restrictions |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1449 |
Bermudez-D Graffiti abatement |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1453 |
Daucher-R Superior Courts: water divisions |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1465 |
Mountjoy-R Prisoners: medical treatment |
Corrections |
| AB 1470 |
Negrete McLeod-D Criminal history information: minors |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1501 |
Yee-D Sexually exploited minors |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1502 |
Salinas-D Family law proceedings: San Benito County |
Family Law |
| AB 1505 |
La Suer-R Victim restitution |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 1551 |
Sharon Runner-R Sexual predators |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1553 |
Evans-D Arbitration |
Civil Law |
| AB 1581 |
Garcia-R Identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 1587 |
Saldana-D Farmed Animal Reform Act |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1599 |
La Malfa-R Homicide trial costs |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1601 |
Laird-D Child care: background checks |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1605 |
Wolk-D Elder and dependent adult abuse |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1626 |
Nava-D Juries: jury tampering and jury instruction |
Juries |
| AB 1638 |
Nava-D Adoption of dependent children |
Juvenile Justice Family Law |
| AB 1647 |
Negrete McLeod-D Peace officers |
Weapons Law Enforcement |
| AB 1657 |
Evans-D Child victims: multidisciplinary centers |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 1672 |
Nation-D Prisons: death row expansion study |
Death Penalty Corrections |
| AB 1677 |
Koretz-D Corrections: condom distribution |
Corrections |
| AB 1683 |
Shirley Horton-R Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1688 |
Niello-R Illegal dumping enforcement officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1700 |
Pavley-D Secrecy agreements: public danger |
Civil Law |
| AB 1710 |
Wyland-R Tasers |
Weapons |
| AB 1740 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Civil procedure: forum |
Procedural |
| AB 1762 |
Nation-D Death penalty prisoners |
Death Penalty |
| AB 1774* |
Assembly Human Services Committee Child welfare services: criminal record checks |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1781 |
Mountjoy-R Highways: victim signs |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Victims of Crime |
| AB 1787 |
Cohn-D Emergency protective orders: validity |
Procedural Family Law |
| AB 1788 |
Cohn-D Drivers licenses: registered sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1789 |
Cohn-D Great bodily injury: paralysis or brain injury |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1791 |
Bermudez-D Sex offender parolees |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1792 |
Cohn-D Parole |
Corrections |
| AB 1797 |
Bermudez-D Trial courts: limited-term employees |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1805* |
Assembly Budget Committee Law enforcement |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1806* |
Assembly Budget Committee Habeas Corpus Resource Center |
Death Penalty Juvenile Justice Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Law Enforcement Civil Law |
| AB 1808* |
Assembly Budget Committee Narcotic programs |
Controlled Substances Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Family Law |
| AB 1810 |
Assembly Budget Committee Budget deficiencies: Corrections |
Corrections |
| AB 1811* |
Laird-D Judiciary: budget trailer bill |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Law Enforcement |
| AB 1812* |
Assembly Budget Committee Sexual assault: budget trailer bill |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1832 |
Bermudez-D Remote alcohol monitoring systems |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Corrections |
| AB 1833* |
Arambula-D Public Safety Bond Acts of 2006 and 2010 |
Corrections |
| AB 1841 |
Bogh-R Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1848 |
Bermudez-D Interoperable public safety communication network |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1849* |
Leslie-R Registered sex offenders: disclosure of release data |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1850 |
Mountjoy-R Vehicles: trunk |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1856 |
Walters-R Vehicles: speeding |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1863 |
Harman-R Punitive damages |
Civil Law |
| AB 1865 |
Bogh-R Driving under the influence: evidence |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Procedural |
| AB 1871 |
Benoit-R Law enforcement communications |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1872 |
Cohn-D Sentence enhancements: pregnant women |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 1873 |
Torrico-D Child protection: safe surrender of newborns |
Child Abuse |
| AB 1879 |
Lieber-D Board of Parole Hearings |
Corrections |
| AB 1882 |
Frommer-D Los Angeles World Airport Police |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1886 |
Dymally-D Court employees |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1894 |
Blakeslee-R Mutual aid agreements: illegal immigrants |
Corrections |
| AB 1900 |
Lieu-D Registered sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1902 |
Villines-R Mechanics' liens |
Civil Law |
| AB 1903 |
Benoit-R Driving: controlled substances |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1904 |
Tran-R Escheated funds |
Civil Law |
| AB 1907 |
Lieu-D Office of Child Abuse Prevention |
Child Abuse |
| AB 1911* |
Garcia-R SAFE teams |
Sex Offenders Law Enforcement |
| AB 1912 |
Maze-R Employment rights |
Weapons |
| AB 1913 |
Garcia-R Transient Sex offenders: tracking devices |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 1919 |
Aghazarian-R Judicial Council: collection actions |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1926 |
DeVore-R Establishing parentage: embryo adoption |
Family Law |
| AB 1932 |
Benoit-R Traffic violator schools |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1941 |
Nava-D Vehicles: bicycles |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 1942 |
Nava-D Arrests |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1945 |
Coto-D Juvenile detention facilities: release: health insurance |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 1954 |
Lieu-D Physicians: participation in executions |
Death Penalty |
| AB 1957 |
Maze-R Vandalism |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 1979 |
Bass-D Community care facilities: criminal record information |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1980 |
Bass-D City of Los Angeles security officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 1981 |
Bass-D Anti-recidivism grants |
Corrections |
| AB 1990 |
Walters-R Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| AB 1993 |
Nakanishi-R Jurors: exemptions |
Juries |
| AB 1995 |
Koretz-D Trial court employees: personnel files |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 1996 |
Bogh-R Testimony: sexual offenses: witnesses |
Sex Offenders Procedural |
| AB 1998 |
Chan-D Parole programs in Alameda County |
Corrections |
| AB 1999* |
Torrico-D Survivors of Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse Fund |
Domestic Violence Victims of Crime |
| AB 2004 |
Yee-D Juveniles: Medi-Cal |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2005 |
Emmerson-R Public records: confidentiality |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2006 |
La Malfa-R Dependent children |
Sex Offenders Juvenile Justice Law Enforcement Family Law |
| AB 2008 |
Haynes-R Unlawful detainer: procedure |
Civil Law |
| AB 2031 |
Cohn-D Dependent children |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2034 |
Spitzer-R Donative transfers |
Civil Law |
| AB 2041 |
Nava-D Public safety |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2042 |
Spitzer-R Trustees: removal |
Civil Law |
| AB 2043 |
Assembly Banking And Finance Committee Identify theft |
Identity Theft Civil Law |
| AB 2044 |
Cogdill-R Student biological specimen testing |
Procedural |
| AB 2049 |
Spitzer-R Sex offenders: parole |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2051 |
Cohn-D Domestic violence |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 2057 |
Cogdill-R Controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 2058 |
Cohn-D Lewd conduct |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2066 |
Lieber-D Corrections: female inmates |
Corrections |
| AB 2075 |
Cohn-D Domestic violence and child abuse |
Domestic Violence Child Abuse |
| AB 2077 |
Strickland-R Battery: retired peace officers |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2079 |
Spitzer-R Jurors: payment |
Juries |
| AB 2082 |
Vargas-D Inmate work camps |
Corrections |
| AB 2084 |
Karnette-D Domestic violence shelter-based programs |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 2088 |
Spitzer-R Statutes of limitations |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2090 |
Lieu-D Controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 2093 |
Karnette-D Evidence: hearsay exception |
Procedural |
| AB 2096* |
Parra-D Firearm safety devices |
Weapons |
| AB 2110 |
Hancock-D Cruelty to animals: dogs: field coursing |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2111 |
Haynes-R Purchase of firearms |
Weapons |
| AB 2114 |
Umberg-D Counties: booking fees |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2126 |
Lieu-D Enforcement of judgments |
Family Law |
| AB 2129 |
Spitzer-R Restraining orders: firearm relinquishment |
Procedural Weapons |
| AB 2130 |
DeVore-R Placement of dependent children |
Juvenile Justice Family Law |
| AB 2131 |
Haynes-R Assault weapons |
Weapons |
| AB 2133 |
Torrico-D Racial profiling: traffic stops |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2135 |
Vargas-D Emergency services: liability |
Law Enforcement Civil Law |
| AB 2139 |
Garcia-R Emergency protective orders |
Procedural Family Law |
| AB 2154 |
Goldberg-D Car share parking |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2159 |
Cogdill-R Bail: residential burglary |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2164 |
La Suer-R Local law enforcement |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2169 |
Montanez-D Domestic violence: victims |
Domestic Violence Victims of Crime Law Enforcement |
| AB 2174 |
Villines-R Criminal procedure: defendant's appearance |
Procedural |
| AB 2181* |
Salinas-D Truants: parents: court authority |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2183 |
Spitzer-R Peace officer training: physical fitness |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2187 |
Liu-D Livestock: liens |
Civil Law |
| AB 2190 |
Benoit-R Reckless driving and motor vehicle speed contests |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2196 |
Spitzer-R Child day care: registered sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2199 |
Harman-R Diversion: firearm offenses |
Weapons |
| AB 2225 |
Mountjoy-R Amber alerts: false reports |
Child Abuse |
| AB 2227 |
Chu-D Courts: advisory panel on language access |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2229 |
La Suer-R Use of a firearm |
Other Crimes and Sentencing Weapons |
| AB 2232 |
La Suer-R Sexual battery: minors |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2237 |
Karnette-D Harbors and ports: security |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2238 |
La Malfa-R Elections: registered sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2246 |
La Suer-R Local public employees: peace officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2251 |
Evans-D Reproductive health care services: confidentiality |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2253 |
Hancock-D Vehicles: illegal dumping |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2258 |
Villines-R Pre-dispute waiver of right to jury |
Civil Law |
| AB 2261 |
Matthews-D Human remains: sexual contact |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2263 |
Spitzer-R Registered sex offenders: working with minors |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2266 |
Lieber-D Death penalty: moratorium |
Death Penalty |
| AB 2267 |
Huff-R Decedents' estates |
Civil Law |
| AB 2272 |
Parra-D Writ of habeas corpus: notice to prosecuting agency |
Procedural |
| AB 2300 |
Parra-D Crime Stoppers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2301 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee State Bar: legal services to the poor |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2302 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Civil actions and proceedings: interpreters |
Procedural Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Family Law Civil Law |
| AB 2303 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Omnibus bill |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| AB 2304 |
Sharon Runner-R Mandatory child abuse reporting |
Child Abuse |
| AB 2305 |
Klehs-D Court reporting |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2310 |
Torrico-D Fireworks: local law enforcement |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2333 |
Parra-D Identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 2336 |
McCarthy-R Controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 2340 |
Harman-R Health care decisions |
Civil Law |
| AB 2345 |
Mountjoy-R Peace officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2347 |
Harman-R Trusts: distributions |
Civil Law |
| AB 2353 |
Bogh-R Homicide: justifiable |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2356 |
Negrete McLeod-D Criminal procedure: recording communications |
Procedural |
| AB 2367 |
La Suer-R Criminal penalties |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2368 |
La Suer-R Bail: premium collection |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2369 |
La Suer-R Civil warrants |
Civil Law |
| AB 2371 |
Levine-D Employment arbitration agreements |
Civil Law |
| AB 2380 |
Dymally-D Parole: mental hospital |
Corrections |
| AB 2383 |
Dymally-D Inmate medical testing |
Corrections |
| AB 2389 |
Vargas-D Child pornography |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2413 |
Spitzer-R Victims of crime reimbursement program |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 2436 |
Ruskin-D Parole programs in East Palo Alto |
Corrections |
| AB 2440 |
Klehs-D Child support obligations: liability |
Family Law |
| AB 2455 |
Nakanishi-R Small claims court |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| AB 2458 |
Blakeslee-R State audit: illegal immigration: costs |
Corrections |
| AB 2461 |
Emmerson-R Criminal procedure: motions: sealing records |
Procedural |
| AB 2465 |
De La Torre-D Pedestrian-bicyclist safety |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2480 |
Evans-D Dependent children: counsel |
Juvenile Justice Family Law |
| AB 2482 |
Harman-R Arbitration: out-of-work attorneys |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| AB 2488 |
Leno-D Adoption: sibling contact |
Family Law |
| AB 2505 |
Nunez-D California Information Security Response Team |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2517 |
Tran-R Minor children: visitation rights |
Family Law |
| AB 2519* |
Umberg-D Judges: qualification requirements |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2521 |
Jones-D Firearms |
Weapons |
| AB 2534 |
Shirley Horton-R Limitation of actions: DNA evidence |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2537 |
Montanez-D Weapons: school prohibition |
Weapons |
| AB 2543* |
Bermudez-D Board of Directors of Cal Expo and the State Fair |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2545 |
Haynes-R Civil actions: religious symbols |
Civil Law |
| AB 2552 |
Baca-D Criminal investigation: funding |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2558 |
Benoit-R Driver's license suspension |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2559 |
Benoit-R Driving under the influence: manslaughter |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2564 |
Matthews-D Health facilities: criminal record clearances |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2568 |
Harman-R Wills: personal property |
Civil Law |
| AB 2571 |
Levine-D Traffic cases: law enforcement |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2586 |
Parra-D Alternative sentencing programs for combat veterans |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2599 |
Benoit-R Motor vehicle theft |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2603 |
Parra-D Discrimination: sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2605 |
Bogh-R Driving under the influence: sanctions |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2612 |
Plescia-R Taking of free newspapers |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2615 |
Tran-R Sex offenses: disclosure of victim information |
Sex Offenders Victims of Crime |
| AB 2618 |
Berg-D Small claims court jurisdiction |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions Civil Law |
| AB 2623 |
Calderon-D Police records management: City of Montebello |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2629 |
Ridley-Thomas-D Parole: sober living facilities |
Corrections |
| AB 2635 |
Vargas-D Sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2636 |
Vargas-D Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2646 |
Daucher-R Coroner training: hospice care |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2655 |
Plescia-R Construction defects: waterproofing system |
Civil Law |
| AB 2657 |
Bogh-R Elder and dependent adult abuse |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2662 |
Frommer-D Peace officers: probation officers: training |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2673 |
Bogh-R Driving under the influence |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2679 |
Harman-R Legal services for poor |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2694 |
Canciamilla-D Registration for controlled substance offenders |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 2695 |
Goldberg-D Domestic violence: fees and payments |
Domestic Violence |
| AB 2702 |
Tran-R Statute of limitations: child pornography |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2705 |
Spitzer-R Victims of crime: Victim's Rights Card |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 2707 |
Keene-R Crime: picketing |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2712 |
Leno-D Housing: sex offenders |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2714 |
Torrico-D Ammunition |
Weapons |
| AB 2718 |
Walters-R Traffic violator school |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2728 |
Klehs-D Assault weapons |
Weapons |
| AB 2729 |
Bogh-R Parole: monitoring |
Corrections |
| AB 2741 |
La Malfa-R Impersonation of a military member |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2752 |
Spitzer-R Driving under the influence |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2767 |
Canciamilla-D Waiver of jury trial |
Civil Law |
| AB 2781 |
Leno-D Private child support collectors |
Family Law |
| AB 2798 |
Goldberg-D Juveniles: pilot project |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2803 |
Parra-D Attorney advertising: residential construction defects |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| AB 2808 |
Strickland-R Driver's license: suspension or revocation |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2814 |
Koretz-D Criminal procedure: continuances |
Procedural |
| AB 2820 |
Leslie-R Teenage Driver Safety Program |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2850 |
Spitzer-R DNA testing |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2853 |
Salinas-D Family law counselors |
Family Law |
| AB 2854 |
Dymally-D Bail bonds: forfeiture |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2857 |
Bass-D Firefighters: arson investigators |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2858 |
Leno-D Trials: mental competence: defendant |
Procedural |
| AB 2864 |
Harman-R Civil actions: time of commencement |
Civil Law |
| AB 2869 |
Leno-D Crime victims reimbursement fund: burial |
Victims of Crime |
| AB 2870 |
De La Torre-D Correctional institutions: communicable diseases |
Corrections |
| AB 2875 |
Pavley-D Confidential settlement agreements: sex offenses |
Sex Offenders Civil Law |
| AB 2886 |
Frommer-D Identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 2893 |
Mountjoy-R Sex offenders: child custody and visitation |
Sex Offenders |
| AB 2899 |
Saldana-D Host families: background checks |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2902 |
Nunez-D Prisons construction |
Corrections |
| AB 2910 |
Baca-D Sentencing: state prison commitments |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2917 |
Liu-D Female prison inmates |
Corrections |
| AB 2919 |
Benoit-R Identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 2923 |
Calderon-D Graffiti and vandalism |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2938 |
Sharon Runner-R Juvenile case files |
Juvenile Justice |
| AB 2940 |
Huff-R School safety: school police officers |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2945* |
Spitzer-R Open meetings: multijurisdictional law enforcement agencies |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 2952 |
Niello-R Criminal procedure |
Procedural |
| AB 2955 |
Cogdill-R Traversing traffic control devices |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 2956 |
Lieu-D Identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 2967 |
Sharon Runner-R Alcoholic beverages: underage drinking |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 2976 |
Mountjoy-R Child abuse: reporting |
Child Abuse |
| AB 2985 |
Maze-R Foster youth: identity theft |
Identity Theft |
| AB 2986 |
Mullin-D Controlled substances |
Controlled Substances |
| AB 3004 |
Houston-R Traffic enforcement |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 3011 |
Benoit-R Commercial motor vehicles |
Law Enforcement |
| AB 3017 |
Mullin-D Changes of venue: reimbursement |
Procedural |
| AB 3027 |
Levine-D Animal cruelty: elephants |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| AB 3043 |
Houston-R Construction defect litigation |
Civil Law |
| AB 3045 |
Koretz-D Ignition interlock device |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses |
| AB 3049 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Waiver of jury trial |
Civil Law |
| AB 3050 |
Assembly Judiciary Committee Flood damage: liability |
Civil Law |
| AB 3064 |
Assembly Public Safety Committee Inmate reentry advisory committee |
Corrections |
| AB 3069 |
Jerome Horton-D Soliciting prostitution: impoundment of vehicle |
Drunk Driving/Other Vehicle Code Offenses Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| ACA 22 |
La Malfa-R Eminent domain |
Civil Law |
| ACA 24 |
Cohn-D Personal income tax: Domestic Violence Shelter Services Fund |
Domestic Violence |
| ACA 37 |
Parra-D Victim's rights |
Victims of Crime |
| ACA 38 |
DeVore-R The Supreme Court |
Courts and Judges/Legal Professions |
| ACR 56 |
Chu-D Hate Crimes Awareness Month |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| ACR 73 |
McCarthy-R California Law Revision Commission |
Weapons |
| ACR 99 |
Cohn-D Domestic Violence Awareness Month |
Domestic Violence |
| ACR 104 |
Chavez-D West Covina Police Officer Kenneth Wrede Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| ACR 106 |
Yee-D The White Ribbon Campaign |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| ACR 109 |
Montanez-D Teen dating violence |
Other Crimes and Sentencing |
| ACR 111 |
McCarthy-R CHP Officer Erick S. Manny Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| ACR 132 |
Cogdill-R Deputy David P. Grant Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| ACR 134 |
Cogdill-R CHP Officer Earl H. Scott Memorial Highway |
Law Enforcement |
| ACR 137 |
Maze-R Sexual Assault Awareness Month |
Sex Offenders |
| ACR 158 |
Pavley-D DNA Awareness Month |
Law Enforcement |
| ACR 161 |
Nava-D Joint Legislative Committee on Emergency Services |
Law Enforcement |
| ACR 166 |
Leno-D Court Adoption and Permanency Month |
Family Law |
| AJR 50 |
Vargas-D Sexually violent predators |
Sex Offenders |
| HR 28 |
Nunez-D Department of the California Highway Patrol |
Law Enforcement |
